Quotes About Persistence

I've always believed that hustle can make up for a lot of mistakes.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur... Don't look for the quick, big improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens- and when it happens, it lasts.

You must believe in what you're doing, that what you're doing is the proper thing, the right thing. And you must have faith that things will end up as they should, which doesn't mean as you want them to, but things will work out as they should.

will do the best I am capable of doing today to bring out my best tomorrow.

You must define success as making the complete effort to maximize your ability, skills, and potential in whatever circumstances—good or bad—may exist.

Remember That Success Can Take Months—or Years—to Achieve but Can Be Undone in Minutes.

Even at 94, I want to be the best I can be, and hard work is the only way to make this happen.

Don't think you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

You never stop trying.

winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never letting anyone down is the point. Play to win. Sure. But lose like a champion. Because it's not winning that counts. What counts is trying.

principle, per-sis tence, and compassion—three

Our teams at UCLA had four perfect seasons, but we never played a perfect game, never played as well as we could. That's perfection. We didn't reach perfection, but we constantly strove toward it.

You often find what you're looking for.

Patience is the ability to wait and calmly preserve. We all grow impatient, but some people have more trouble waiting than others do. We tend to forget that all good things take time.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Try your hardest in all ways and you are a success.

If at first you don't succeed, just study the life of Abraham Lincoln.

W turned on his heel and began walking toward the door at the far wall. And by walking I mean, of course, not moving at all, at least not to the naked eye, because his strides could only be measured in micrometers. His creaky legs made barely the tiniest of forward steps, so he'd taken four strides before I noticed any lateral movement at all. "I'll be right back." "Geologically speaking, of course," HARV said.

The situation is unendurable, and yet he endures.

One can't quit working to better the world just because the world is old and set in its ways. The enormity of a job is no reason not to do the job.

Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.

In order to build continuity and momentum in the meditation practice, you will need to keep reminding yourself to come back to the breath over and over again, no matter what the mind is up to from one moment to the next.

You have to actually make the time to practice every day, because otherwise you will not find it.

With God, a mountain before me is soon to be a memory behind me.