Quotes About Persistence

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

I refused to take no for an answer.

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it.

If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts.

Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.

The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.

If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I'm going.

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody

I did everything he did but backwards & in high heels.

He lives century after century, and the test I set for him he has passed.

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

You know, I came in as a rookie and didn't get to play much at all, really. Became a sponge. I had to go through the rough, get cut a couple times, take the G-league route, which was the D-league back then.

I couldn't get my first film on the air. The first film I did was called 'The Race For Space,' about the U.S.-Soviet space race. The networks had a policy that I found out about the hard way. I even had a sponsor for my program, but the networks wouldn't put it on because it was independently produced.

Consistency is key in any sport and it's no different here.

You can beat a dead horse as much as you want, but it doesn't come back to life. And sometimes you just have to change things up to keep the excitement and enthusiasm in the sport.

India has a large number of those who take up the sport of shooting. But it's not enough to be content with the hotspots.

If you are good at something, and especially, if people who matter tell you that you are good enough, you must follow that sport.