Quotes About Persistence

I've wanted one thing for me whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains.

FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again....even though every time you've tried before you've lost.

Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.'

He had come to visit every day, even though she refused to see him at first, so that he wouldn't be absent when she did want to see him.

To Stephen Hawking and all others younger than myself I say, "Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.

Louise?" "Hmm? Sorry, I was distracted. What did you say?" "I said, what do you think about our Mr. Hossner here?" "I prefer not to." "I've tried that myself: ignoring the government, seeing if it would go away. It hasn't.

Te? tego próbowa?em. Ignorowa? rz?d w nadziei, ?e zniknie. Nie znikn??.

Penetrating computer security is really quite dull; I can see how it might attract those who can't resist a challenge to their cleverness, but it's not intellectually aesthetic at all. It's no different than tugging on the doors of a locked house until you find an improperly installed lock. A useful activity, but hardly interesting.

Stratton envisioned a day when the human species could survive as long as its own behavior allowed, when it could stand or fall based purely on its own actions, and not simply vanish once some predetermined life span had elapsed. Other species might bloom and wither like flowers over seasons of geologic time, but humans would endure for as long as they determined.

Don't do that again" may well be the most potent jazz mantra, a guidepost for the musician who seeks the highest peaks of artistic transcendence.

The problem isn't that I've hit rock bottom. The problem is that I haven't.

What happened casually remains -

That particular passion which caused me to pursue for years on end a journey that others would scarcely contemplate, that many regarded as an act of folly or arrogance, arose out of my own peculiarity. I saw that it would make me a difficult person to live with, just as I knew that without it I could hardly live with myself.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Success is quest that will take me a life time to fulfill but it is worth the wait...

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again... who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. Teddy Roosevelt

You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

With Tenerife, we had to fight in the most difficult second division in Spain with Atletico Madrid, Sevilla, and Real Betis, and we were promoted. I know you have to fight until the last day. We were promoted in the last game.

If I didn't think I could win the World Championship I would go and play golf badly in Spain.

I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.

I have an attention span that's as long as it has to be.