Quotes About Persistence

the race isn't over until the checker flies.

The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the others than it is to drive too hard and crash.

To finish first, first you must finish

Yes: the race is long—to finish first, first you must finish.

There aint never a horse that could'nt be rode and never a rider that could'nt be throwed

it's not the solution, it's the path to the solution that is fascinating

He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it and make do.

Gary D. Schmidt

repeated failure is key to doing bold things, to being entrepreneurial. Try stuff, fail, fail fast, try again. When Sam Walton was asked why Walmart was so successful, he said, "We do a lot of things right." Then asked how they did things right, he said, "Because we did them wrong the first time.

That is the hazard in curiosity, I thought: all the certainties fragment and dissolve. A man curious enough and persistent enough might find even the round and solid ball of earth to be not so. He might be less proud of his faculty of reasoning when it left him with nothing whereon to stand. But then again, was not the truth a more solid foundation than illusion?

Think as big as you possibly can and base what you do, how you do it, and who you do it with on succeeding at that level. It just might take you more than your lifetime to run into the walls of a box this big.

You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided." —General George S. Patton

When you strive for greatness, chaos is guaranteed to show up.

when you can see mastery as a path you go down instead of a destination you arrive at, it starts to feel accessible and attainable.

Where I'd had huge success, I had narrowed my concentration to one thing, and where my success varied, my focus had too.

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world." — Og Mandino

Lily Tomlin once said, "The road to success is always under construction.

Give each habit enough time. Stick with the discipline long enough for it to become routine. Habits, on average, take 66 days to form. Once a habit is solidly established, you can either build on that habit or, if appropriate, build another one.

It's quite possible that the most important contributor to your ultimate success will be your ability to keep moving, to make progress, and to learn as you go. So jump out there and enter the real estate sales race with confidence. And remember, you can't get anywhere if you never start!

working at something until it regularly works for you.

The truth I have come to know very clearly is that seeking mastery is a process and a path, not an event.

when you think about success, shoot for the moon. The moon is reachable if you prioritize everything and put all of your energy into accomplishing the most important thing.

All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time—all of them.

When it comes to willpower, timing is everything.