Quotes About Persistence

Don't worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.

I like winning, it just takes longer

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.

That's life,and I can't deny it/Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it.

Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.

When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.

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There are only two things to remember. Number one...Don't Stop, and number two...Keep Going!

God's delay is not God's denial.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes.

Do something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

It isn't sufficient just to want-you've got to ask yourself what you're going to do to get the things you want.

Let not defeatists tell us that it is too late. It will never be earlier. Tomorrow will be later than today.

A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.

Diego, a giant tortoise, single-handedly saved his species from extinction. As one of the few surviving representatives of his kind, he was moved from an American zoo to a breeding program on the Galápagos Islands, in Ecuador. Diego's unrelenting mating efforts helped raise the number of these tortoises from just fifteen to two thousand. One hundred years old, Diego keeps going.

Neither stubborn courage nor fine slogans are enough.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.

I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done

Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.