Quotes About Persistence

Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

I always believe that, as you start out, while you should have a big dream - a big goal - but it's also important to move step by step. So, you know, frankly, if you ask me, when I started as a management trainee in 1984, I don't know that I really thought that I would become the CEO.

My biggest accomplishment was playing 'Lark' on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes.

When you're in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it's another step along the way. But I find joy in the actual process, the journey, the work. It's not the end. It's not the end event.

Everything happens at one step at a time.

Once you get a perfect score, you don't want anything less. When you get less, then I guess it's time to step aside.

It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.

The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.

If you're Stephen King and you have a massive body of huge-selling well-respected work, you can pivot and do whatever you want. I don't have that body of work, I don't have that audience that's comfortable with me enough yet to follow my bliss with me.

I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.

I didn't go into the Hall of Fame until I was a Hall of Famer. Three times I had been there, I never stepped foot inside.

Every time I'd ever stepped on a basketball court, AAU, middle school, high school, I always thought about the NBA.

Every time we do a new record, we do the best we can. For us, every record is stepping into the ring with another heavyweight champion.

It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction.

You don't know how many times I fell just taking ridiculous small steps.

The longest journeys start with the smallest steps.

Before achieving a dream, you need to make very little steps... People don't understand that when you want to make a big dream you have a lot of fastidious little things you have to do.

I started playing football in a school back in Sao Vicente when I was five years old, going towards six. Those were my first steps, among those kids, and then I kept going.

I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.

Not only in the Octagon, but also in life, sometimes I have to take two steps back to take one step forward.

The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn't spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn't like, 'Hey, little lady, come strap on this here big guitar.' We took it in steps as much as possible.

It's not easy to go up the steps after a defeat. It's very difficult for me, for everybody, but we have to accept it.

It's about keeping my eyes on the prize. That comes in steps. So for me to get where I really want, I have to take it one step at a time and I have to focus on the plate of food that's in front of me. I can't be looking down the road or at everyone else's plate.