Quotes About Persistence

You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.

I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.

No one will take better care of your dream than you.

It's always a struggle. It's an uphill battle the whole time. But you know what? The rewards are so graet, I wouldn't trade it for the world.

A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

Success is dependent on the glands - the sweat glands.

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will.

This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.

You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.

Your legs are not giving out. Your head is giving out. Keep going.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.

Luck has nothing to do with it.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.

The only way around is through.

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

When you have a childhood dream that still burns and tugs at your heart when you're an adult, you owe it to yourself to pursue and achieve this dream.

Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.