Quotes About Persistence

And I have huge admiration for you picking yourself up and moving on. Sometimes just getting through each day requires almost superhuman strength.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

Thinking Best Ever is one thing, making something else. Thinking goes round and round. Making rolls along, super slow maybe, but you don't end where you start.

It followed that every act, whether the finding of a new proof for a complex mathematical problem or a twist of vision that turned one school of art into another was a result of endless failure.

Don't focus on the numbers. Trust the process. When you keep doing things the right way, eventually the numbers will rise, the wins will come, and the outcome will happen.

The book talked about how after people play a round of golf they usually don't think about all the bad shots they made but rather always remember and focus on the one great shot they had that day. The thought and feeling they get when thinking about this shot makes them want to play again and again; this is why so many people get addicted to golf.

You haven't failed until you stop trying

Playing to win requires a commitment to yourself that even if you fail, you will never give up and never let your goals and dreams die. Those

Your positive energy and vision must be greater than anyone's and everyone's negativity. Your certainty must be greater than everyone's doubt.

You haven't failed until you stop trying.

Often the difference between success and failure is belief.

Failure provides you with a great opportunity to decide how much you really want something. Will you give up? Or will you dig deeper, commit more, work harder, learn, and get better? If you know that this is what you truly want, you will be willing to pay the price that success requires. You will be willing to fail again and again in order to succeed.

We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

Deanne had nailed it: this was a battle of wills, and victory would go to the most stubborn and patient. I couldn't really say I had him beat on the first count, but I had an edge on the second.

He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.

That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do.

No, it is remrable that everest did not yield to the first few attempts; it would have been suprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains.

Shit travels a long way, but wherever it lands it smells the same. - Colonel Franklin Brickland

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

Hang on, the cats are demanding their second breakfast. One second.

You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.

Get there early because hope does not park your mother-fucking car.

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.