Quotes About Persistence

But Kino had lost his old world and he must clamber on to a new one. For his dream of the future was real and never to be destroyed, and he said I will go, and that made a real thing too.

We're jus' huntin' skunks under water.

It's not so bad when you get used to it," said Doc. "I've been drinking it for seventeen years.

tell ya, a one-eye' fella got a hard row

Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what kepes us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, & all of those voices that tell you what you can & cannot do & can & cannot be.

Life is a hill that gets steeper the more you climb.

The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at you first.

There was to be no further talk of damning her eyes or of her interfering with his riding his own line. He was only too anxious to pilot her again if she would allow it. She for her part had no doubt that there at last she had found, at least so far as crossing a country went, the man she was looking for.

If that's what you want to do, then you should go do it-and do it well.

Remember this your lifetime through: Tomorrow there will be more to do. And failure waits for all who stay With some success made yesterday. Tomorrow you must try once more, And even harder than before.

If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.

We will begin by learning how to tie our shoes.

To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it. -John wooden

The goal in life is just the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing

Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort? That's what matters. The rest of it just gets in the way.

Perfection is what you are striving for, but perfection is an impossibility. However, striving for perfection is not an impossibility. Do the best you can under the conditions that exist. That is what counts.

Sposobnost može da te dovede na vrh al da bi opstao na vrhu, potreban ti je karakter.

there are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.

The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Competitiveness must be focused exclusively on the process of what you are doing rather than the result of that effort (the so-called winning or losing).

Succeeding is performing at your best when your best is required

If any one premise typifies my teams in all the years I've coached, it is this concept. Often as a player, I'd tell myself, I may play someone better than I am, but I'll never run against one who is going to be in better condition And I never played against a man in my life I felt was in better shape, and Lambert often cited me as an example of top conditioning.