"Whatever you want, especially when you’re striving..." - Quote by Mike Tyson
Whatever you want, especially when you’re striving to be the best in the world at something, there’ll always be disappointments, and you can’t be emotionally tied to them, cos’ they’ll break your spirit.
More by Mike Tyson
“I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big Silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined.”
“It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.”
“Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.”
More on Disappointment
“At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.”
“There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated”
“Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.”
More on Resilience
“Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes.”
“The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.”
“Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.”