Quotes About Persistence

True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

Excellence is inconveniently difficult.

Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.

Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

My experience is that inventors come in all sizes, all nationalities, all ages. The only thing I'm sure of is that inventors are always stubborn.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

Too many young people are being taught to give up their dreams before they have any experience attempting to pursue them.

When a bad experience happens, you just chalk it up to the great fact that you just got five more jokes in the show.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.

I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I like to do things that are step by step. It takes experience to get to the next level. And you have to put your heart into it.

Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.

I feel that right from the start the players were prepared to experience catastrophic results with comments like: 'It's going to be tough and we are going to need time'.

If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up!

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

From my experience of having served for 3000 days, I can say that anything can be achieved.