Quotes About Persistence

The changing of the goals helps keep the motivation fresh.

In adversity, you have to find motivation to continue and do well.

Some players lose motivation, but going to the court every day helped me.

I have had bad times, but I never lost my motivation to work and make an effort so that in the moments I got to play I could be at my best.

I try to just find motivation in different areas.

The more we do, the more we can do.

Many are called but few get up.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

A will finds a way.

It's my motor, it's the thing that keeps me going and so when I have these auditions for these big movies, I can depend on myself because I've been working consistently.

Doing as much as you can for as long as you can - that's the motto.

It's only a lost cause when everyone gives up on it.

Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am here--here in the darkness waiting, here attentive, here approving of your labor and your dream.

There's always stuff to work on. You're never there.

Staring Girl I once knew a girl who would just stand there and stare. At anyone or anything, she seemed not to care She'd stare at the ground, She'd stare at the sky. She'd stare at you for hours, and you'd never know why. But after winning the local staring contest, she finally gave her eyes a well-deserved rest.

We would all prefer to see much further ahead. We want the road map and to know the short cuts. But usually we only have enough light for the next step. To get anywhere we must take that.

To cheer myself up, I try to remember the difference between short-term and long-term success. Living a good life and making a real mark on society is a marathon, not a sprint.

wanted to build a toaster from scratch. He started by taking apart a

Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgement. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without

Doctors persisted with bloodletting for three hundred years after Van Helmont challenged them to prove that their technique worked. In

The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, repaying itself over and over.

Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.

They endured. They kept humping. They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really.

The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, replaying itself over and over.