Quotes About Persistence

You can't really force four tournaments a year.

There can be tournaments that can be elusive no matter how well you play in them, but there's no point in thinking, 'Well, it's just not to be' until it's done and dusted.

Tournaments are won on the last day, not the first.

I played as many golf tournaments as I could. I killed time by playing and practicing. It's something I love to do; it's fun and I was good at it.

I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.

The most satisfying accomplishment for me was winning the British Open in 1996. But the most rewarding times were the times on the mini tours.

You have tours that go to certain parts of the world to see a specific type of bird, and then you come back to Hollywood, and you see tour vans that go around in hopes of catching a glimpse of Halle Berry going out to get a newspaper.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Goals seem impossible only when you are not heading toward them.

My entire life I've proved that I'm able to overcome people's negativity toward me.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

When you're facing an opponent over a broad front, you don't aim for the opponent's strong points, important though they may be. Pick a little outpost that you can capture and win. And then you find another place that you can capture and win it, and then you move slowly toward the big places.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

Even if the coverage is leaning toward you or whatever it may be, there's ways to beat it.

For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.

Once I set my mind towards something, it's going to happen. By hook or by crook.

You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

Passion keeps me going. I love my work. The need to come back, no matter what, and my passion towards my work keeps me going.

I'm really working towards perfecting my craft every single day.

I won't play any blame games for my films that didn't work. But I've been working towards getting good roles. Even Abhishek Bachchan became a superstar after delivering 17 flops.

I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.