Quotes About Persistence

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.

Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.

Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!

My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.

Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.

If you're waiting for someone to believe in you, you'll be waiting forever. You must believe in yourself.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

You may not be responsible for getting knocked down. But you're certainly responsible for getting back up.

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world

Do more than believe: practice.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains.

No journey is too great, when one finds what one seeks.

Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time

I see so many people who don't want to try, and I say 'I don't care what I ever do, I never give up at anything anymore.' I don't care what it is, you'll never see me give up.

Good is not enough. You've got to be great.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.

The hardest things in life are done the least but provide the most.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Hurry up: your dreams are waiting for you, but they will not wait forever

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.