Quotes About Persistence

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Women are marvellous at plodding through the centuries. They are exact, accurate and tireless. If you ever wish to discover some minute fact, buried away at the bottom of a bin of forgotten parchments, find a girl with horn-rimmed spectacles and straight hair and ask her to do it for you.

As long as we don't give up, we don't fail. We just continue to learn

Resistance wears us down and dims our light

We cannot get over something while resisting it

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio.

It always seems impossible until it is done.' NELSON MANDELA

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

face it, fighting his way, but he couldn't make it. He

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is in the doing, not the getting—in the trying, not the triumph. WYNN DAVIS

Þegar öllu er á botninn hvolft, þá fer allt einhvernveginn, þótt margur efist um það á tímabili.

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

My mother always said to me, 'You're going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can't take no for an answer'.

The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against not with the wind.

That is why we got booted out. If they could have just squeezed us like an orange and squeezed the juice out, I think the juice would have been squeezed out of us, and all the goodness would have been sucked away. But it was a bit harder, wasn't it? It was more like the durian. You try and squeeze it, your hand gets hurt. And so they say, "Right, throw out the durian." But inside the durian is a very useful ingredient, high protein … And we will progress.

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.