Quotes About Persistence

Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.

We didn't win because we had more talent than other teams. We won because we had more endurance.

It is good to sit a little longer than you want to so you see the part of your mind that resists practice

Don't ever, ever give up. Moses was once a basket case.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things -- they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

Yeah, I feel sort of unfinished in New York, even though I spent so many years there. I think it's because I never got a chance to do any Broadway, or even off-Broadway. I would love to do that and I haven't given up on that.

I managed the Dodgers for 20 years. It's hard to believe that there are only four guys in the history of baseball who managed the same team for 20 years or more. One was owner of the team, Connie Mack. Another was part owner of the team, John McGraw. Then there was my predecessor, Walter Alston, and me. It's amazing. In the 20 years I managed the Dodgers, 210 managers were fired.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

A bird's song is beautiful, but if it never stops you feel like shooting it.

In real life, you eat the cinnamon toast, even if your heart is burning.

A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.

Watching my grandfather work taught me that not everything was fluid. There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on. You did the work that was needed, wherever that work took you.

While the no answer is not ideal, if you say over and over a number of times, "No now is not a no forever," you will feel better about yourself, shake off this one occurrence, and get back to asking again.

Gracias por seguir existiendo." Victoria

los sueños, como todos sabemos, se sueñan dentro de nuestra cabeza, y se cumplen allí donde te encuentras. El truco es agarrarlos por la cola y no dejarlos ir, cueste lo que cueste. Por más bestias que se interpongan en tu camino.

La vida es como trabajar en el huerto: es necesario esperar el tiempo justo para recoger el fruto apropiado.

Lo importante es ser capaces de salir adelante, no importa lo duro que parezca el camino.

If you dig into it, it comes back to you. That's the way war is.

When Louie was in his sixties, he was still climbing Cahuenga Peak every week and running a mile in under six minutes. In his seventies, he discovered skateboarding. At eighty-five, he returned to Kwajalein on a project, ultimately unsuccessful

Louie, declared dead more than sixty years earlier, would outlive them all.

Who hit you in the butt with a saddle and told you you could ride?" a starter hissed before a race. "The same S.O.B. that hit you in the butt and told you you could start!" he shot back. Pollard had found the one place on earth that could hold his interest. He was broke, hungry, and, according to his sister Edie, "happy as heck.

I guess we've both managed to plow through a lot of shit. Well listen, it's been enough to make me nothing short of fanatically determined to have it right once and that's what we're doing, right? - Janis Joplin

Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.