Quotes About Persistence

Si quiere usted alcanzar la excelencia, puede lograrlo hoy mismo. A partir de este segundo, no haga ningún trabajo que no sea excelente.

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

Without triers they would never be any successors

Without triers there would never be any successors

Pearls rarely turn up in oysters served to you on a plate; you have to dive for them.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..

We must just keep on and on until the mountains themselves crumble from nausea or we learn to scale them and cool our hands in the sky.

trying to dig it larger. He knew there wasn't room enough for him to get between those roots.

We do what we can. We push on, Esteban, as best we can. It isn't for long, you know. Time keeps going by. You'll be surprised at the way time passes.

Facciamo quello che possiamo. Tiriamo avanti, Esteban, come meglio possiamo. Non dura molto, sai,... Il tempo passa. Ti sorprenderà vedere come passa in fretta".

She resembled the swallow in the fable who once every thousand years transferred a grain of wheat, in the hope of rearing a mountain to reach the moon. Such persons are raised up in every age; they obstinately insist on transporting their grains of wheat and they derive a certain exhilaration from the sneers of the bystanders. "How queerly they dress!" we cry. "How queerly they dress!

To be successful, we need a method whereby we can remain steadfast on our course.

You know you're the turtle, right? The one who comes and goes as he pleases while I wait for you?

Which one of you is the turtle?" "I'm sorry?" asked Eva. "Which one of you is the turtle? You know, the one who leaves and comes back and leaves again, while the other waits?" she said, spinning on her heel. "It's a metaphor, writers. Think about it.

Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I'll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities.

You can't wait forever for something, and then say it's too late when the time finally comes, even if every shred of incentive inside you has been lost.

The question is one of faith. Faith in my talent. Faith in my decisions. And faith in the idea that the truth, even if it can't pay my bills, can still set me free. 

I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.

Hopefully I'll continue to have the success I've had.

perhaps we would engrave the words of Mahatma Gandhi, who once said, A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

Failure is only temporary.

Motorcycle camping is an evolution and can take a lifetime to perfect.

At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.