Quotes About Persistence

When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.

The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.

Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire.

This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom.

A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle.

Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could.

What you resist persist.

The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.

A goal isn't something you just arrive at and stop. You have to stay curious and hungry and foolish...

You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops.

Goals are like bananas, they come in bunches.

We strive toward a goal, and whether we achieve it or not is important, but it's not what's most important. What matters is how we move toward that goal.

My goal is to never lose. That may not be realistic, but I'm going to try.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.

A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.

I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.

Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?

Obstacles are merely a call to strengthen your resolve to achieve your worthwhile goals.

No great goal was ever easily achieved.

If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.

If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?

My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

I knew I was not a failure in any way, and so did those close to me. It doesn't matter if you fall short; it is never a failure to go after your goals with everything you've got.