Quotes About Persistence

It's better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.

Let's just start over", gurgled the hagget's voice. We cannot give up now.

I am familiar with the phrase, 'needle in a haystack' and I think I understand its meaning more than I wish to.

There was no point in the gods trying to separate us. Whether we were on Earth or in hell, we'd spend the rest our days look for the other.

I'm sorry, my lady, " said Geric, rubbing his arm. "But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.

It ain't over 'til it's over.-Yogi Berra

But optimism dribbles away when horror repeats.

The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

Oh yes. You've done a marvelous job of succeeding at failure.

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

When I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can.

I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.

Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

I was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long.

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote Whatever it is that you're afraid of, go after it.

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.