Quotes About Persistence

You always pass failure on your way to success.

Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's possible. And it's your turn. So go for it. It's never too late to become what you always wanted to be in the first place.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

It's just life. You have to be able to get up, face your flaws, and just, whatever it is, a step, an inch, you just got to keep moving forward.

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.

Your highs can't be too high, and your lows can't be too low, because you have to pick back up and move on.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Greatness comes by doing a few small and smart things each and every day. Comes from taking little steps, consistently. Comes from a making a few small chips against everything in your professional and personal life that is ordinary, so that a day eventually arrives when all that's left is The Extraordinary.

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

To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up.

I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.

You want to create your own path, no matter what situation you're in.

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

I've always been a firm believer in mind over matter. If you don't believe you can achieve, your body will start to believe this and you'll be stuck.

If you mind tells your body you can't do it, you will quit. If your body is giving up, but you think you can carry on, you will naturally keep putting one foot in front of the other.

You can accomplish anything that you dedicate yourself to. Think how many people struggle across the world, across the country. I know anything is possible if you set your mind, your body, your soul, and your faith to it.

I'm shooting for longevity. The road is hard on your body.

Your mind wants to keep you in that rut, doing the same weight, same reps, and same exercises, never moving forward. But your body doesn't want to be stagnant.

In college, the whole two years, I never sat out a practice or a game. So your body kind of wears down.