You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else. And to do that you have to train hard and strive your utmost, and sometimes even that isn't enough, because another runner just might be more talented than you are. Here's the truth: if you want something, you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure. (That's the problem with Karl: he was afraid of failing, so he never really tried.).Phillip Pullman
About This Quote
To run a race, you have to want to win. You also have to want to be the best. Even if you’re not the best in the world, you should still want to win and be the best in your region. If you don’t want either of those things, it doesn’t matter how fast you run. You can go as slow as you want and no one will ever know or care.
Some Similar Quotes
- No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became...
- Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.
- But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.
- Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail...
- I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.