Quotes About Persistence

Mai lasciarsi spaventare dalla parola FINE.

God remains great, even when others refuse to recognize, know or seek after Him. He never stops loving, caring and protecting humanity.

The dwarf and the woman, lucky miscreants, outlanders, errors that should not exist but lived on anyway. (314)

Remember that, in reality, there is no failure, only feedback, and that if we learn from our failures, we are actually failing forward.

I want to be the best in whatever I do.

I decided one day early on in high school that I wanted to be great at basketball, not just a good basketball player. I would go to the elementary school by my house and shoot thousands of shots all day, every day.

If you take away the last few years, from my last year in Washington, and you think about my career, there was nothing but hard work. I was in the gym three or four times a day, working on my skills. If we lost a game, and I thought I played bad, I'm staying in the gym to keep shooting. That's what I did. That's what I was known for: I was a gym rat.

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

J'ai poursuivi en vain deux quêtes impossibles- celle de l'amour- jusqu'à la déraison; celle de l'amitié, jusqu'à la désillusion. Tel un papillon fou, mon cœur s'est brûlé cent fois aux flammes de ces sentiments éternels. Au fil de mes voyages, le long des plaines fertiles et des espaces désertiques, j'ai appris l'oubli, j'ai oublié d'apprendre.

Difficulties existed only to be surmounted, and there was no setback that a little thought and determination could not overcome.

I want to follow him over the snows between the immaculate earth and now, between the silence and the shot that rang over the ice at the top of the globe, when the map of the earth was something we knew by heart, and they had not shot the bear, had not loosed the ice, had not, had not....

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

While many things have changed, some things haven't changed enough.

I feel like I still am struggling in a lot of different ways. I still have to fight for certain things. Certain jobs. At least I'm working and I'm thankful for that.

Showing up begins long before you stand at the start. Prove yourself an exception in a world where people talk more than act. Intent without follow-through is hollow. Disappoint yourself enough times and empty is how you feel. Make yourself proud. Fill yourself up. Show up.

Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don't prove that you shouldn't try again.

We often mistake letting go for giving up. Knowing the difference between the two can make all the difference in the end.

Keep moving. Your next big thing may be just around the corner.

No map? No problem. Let commitment and determination lead the way.

If you want it badly enough, it's yours.

How far are you willing to go to create the life you want?

Long distance races ceased to be daunting, single entities – 12K, Half Marathon, Marathon. As if solving a riddle, I deciphered their true nature: incremental miles over time.