Quotes About Persistence

No complaints. The kid is back in the saddle," Jackson said, sitting down. "You should have been up in the Tomcat with me last week. Oh, man, I'm finally back in the groove. I was hassling with a guy in an A-4 playing aggressor, and I ruined his day. It was so fine." He grinned like a lion surveying a herd of crippled antelope. "I'm ready!" "When

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Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it ~Tom Clancy

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

It's not about just coming up with the one genius idea that solves the problem, but trying and failing at a hundred other solutions before arriving at the best one.

Effort is the path to mastery, so let's at least give this a try.

Individuals who come to believe that they can effect change are more likely to accomplish what they set out to do. Bandura calls that conviction "self-efficacy." People with self-efficacy set their sights higher, try harder, persevere longer, and show more resilience in the face of failure.

The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball.

If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.

despair is ultimately destructive to oneself and a burden to others; and that if one persists in it, the gods will sooner or later lose patience and give one something to really despair about.

IF THIS TYPEWRITER CAN'T DO IT, then fuck it, it can't be done.

if this typewriter cant do it fuck it

are the Cheerios smiling bravely, insisting that the show must go on?

Success in life is to maintain this ecstasy, to burn always with this hard gemlike flame.

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

Take that, nattering nabobs of negativity!

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes. Fervently, for a year she had prayed. Although somewhat discouraged, she was not without hope. To have something as wonderful as that would take a long, long time.

He said, 'Always. Always.

Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then another

Before and since, all her effort was directed not on avoiding pain but on getting through it as quickly as possible. The

Move. Walk. Run. Hide. Steal and move on.

When he was drifting, thinking only about the next meal and night's sleep, when everything was packed tight in his chest, he had no sense of failure, of things not working out. Anything that worked at all worked out.

They stopped me from getting us there, but they didn't stop you from getting here. Ha ha.