Quotes About Persistence

Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.

Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.

To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

Any time that you think you've hit the top of the mountain, the truth of the matter is you've just reached another mountain. And it's there to climb all over again.

Truth suffers, but never dies.

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Act like you know what you are doing, listen hard, and eventually you will know what you are doing.

This what chance will do, children, trample over all your dreams, swing a bony ankle in front of you.

Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it. I can do it. Let's do it.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor".

Tough people last, tough times don't.

Go for it. I did. I am. And I promise, I will. "Mistakes" or not, it's worth it.

When it comes to believing in yourself, put your eye on the mark and don't blink. If you have a goal, a dream, or an aspiration…believe in yourself while you are on the way to your destination, and you will have already arrived.

Anything a person chases in life runs away.

Anything a person chases in life runs away.

There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or strugle a little bit to get.

Keep moving. Sometimes life threatens to overwhelm but if you can just make it to tomorrow another tomorrow will always come.

We will never accomplish anything worthwhile in life if we require the guarantee of success at the onset.

Some hopes were weeds, easy to eradicate with a yank and a pull. Some, however, were vines, fast growing, tenacious, and impossible to clear.

Some hopes were weeds, easy to eradicate with a yank and a pull. Some, however, were vines, fast growing, tenacious, and impossible to clear. As she played the music box again, alone in the drawing room, she began to realize that hers were of the latter kind. She would never stop hoping.