Quotes About Persistence

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. ? René Descartes

I'm always on the court with my dad.

Just believe in yourself even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point you will.

If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it's not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.

Dangling a carrot in front of a donkey—or anyone else for that matter—is not nice, and not fair, unless you eventually plan to give it up to them.

Thing is," Grial said in a conspiratorial voice, "let me tell you a little secret, girlie. That road- those roads, all roads and paths in fact- they never end. You might think they do. You might think they just narrow and fade and disappear in the hoary depths of the forest? Not so, not at all! They merely go into hiding, and you just have to search a bit harder to see them.

Always," he says softly. "It is what I intend to do for as long as I breathe.

La sincérité toujours surmonte les obstacles.

No one workout can make an athlete, but one workout can break an athlete.

To paraphrase Steve Jobs, "I'm always amazed how overnight successes take a helluva long time.

We have to ignore the sad individuals who scoff or mock – either because they have been bought with a purse of silver or because they are too unintelligent to understand the nature of the war we are fighting. We must not allow ourselves to be put off by scorn, derision, undisguised contempt or a lack of support or encouragement from others.

Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

Weaknes my simply be a flash of doubt in the mind. One moment of doubt can be enough to be defeated

So even in hell, there are clowns.

And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

Often the struggler has given up, When he might have captured the victor's cup. And he learned too late when the night came down, How close he was to the golden crown. Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint of the clouds of doubt. And you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems afar. So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit. And that's worth thinking about.

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping-stone to something better…" ~Harland "The Colonel" Sanders

We have to have a vision for our life, for what we want to become. Most importantly, we have to cher-ish it and hold on tightly to it when circumstances are telling us that we'll never see our vision.

Spend some quality time with your dreams. They are real to the extent that you value them. To the extent that you commit to them and work for them, they will come true.

They fall and endure. They live.

I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.

No great man will ever succeed in life if they do not grind their teeth and take the most dangerous path for the attainment of an end.

Serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open your eyes the next morning.