Quotes About Persistence

Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst is not to try.

The will is stronger than anything else. Everything must go down before the will, for that comes from God: a pure and strong will is omnipotent.

Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached. Arise, arise once more, for nothing can be done without renunciation.

Enjoy the goal of life that you have in yourself from now on. Try to achieve the goal. Include it in your daily pages; Until you achieve your goal

Everything is achievable; never stop yourself,from following on your dream.

No one or anything on this earth is perfect; Can only try to be perfect

What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.

Industriousness (hard work) and enthusiasm (a genuine love for what you are doing) are the cornerstones for success.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur…. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens—and when it happens, it lasts." - John Wooden

Coach Wooden's philosophy is for players and students to improve a little every day and make perfection the goal. His method for improving conditioning included one painful demand—each player, when reaching the point of exhaustion, was to push himself beyond. When this is done every day, top condition will be attained over time.

There are actually eight laws of learning—Demonstration, Explanation, Imitation, Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, and Repetition. The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning. There is absolutely no substitute for repetition. I believe in learning by repetition to the point where everything becomes automatic… the best teacher is repetition, day after day, throughout the season." - John Wooden

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly. (friend who is a priest said regarding prayer)

Success is just a little more effort.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.

I declare,... a man who wishes to make his way in life could do nothing better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Everybody manages one way or another; everyone who is alive and reading this book has managed.

Angel, a crowd of millions couldn't hide you from me. I found you once. I'll always find you.

Chasing the past, I stumbled into the future.

Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true