Apolo Ohno Quotes

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; ad if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility.

I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.

Thou didst thy best, that is success.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

I have to work hard. I'm not naturally great at anything. I have to work really, really hard.

Life ain't about just 'Chillin' It.' I've learned that.

For me personally, the way I've been trained, just through life experience - the harder something is, the harder you have to work for it, the more worthwhile it is, and you just have to know that going in.

I can handle coming fifth as long as I know I've given my all out there and have no regrets.

Not a lot of people see that when you're growing up. You don't get to see that people really have to work hard to become as good as they are.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education.... On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

When the record book on you is finished, let it show your wins and losses. But don't let it show you didn't try.

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Life's greatest adventure is in doing one's level best.

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

If you practice hard, you can win every battle.

In the end, the greatest victory we can know is the result of all of our hard work, discipline, and dedication: the realization of our dreams.