Quotes About Persistence

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

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.

That's it. Thats Bob's game. His drill...is really quite simple- make a habit of doing things other's weren't willing to do.

If he only made three miles a day, so be it. Better to have those three miles behind him than ahead.

They stood there for a while, with no sound but the flapping of the flag. "It's not that simple, Kiowa." "Of course it's not simple. Who said it was simple? But you know what? Lots of loose ends don't ever get tied up. Play the hand you're dealt. Move on." Kiowa

He would crawl until his body could support a crutch. If he only made three miles a day, so be it. Better to have those three miles behind him than ahead.

Still, he thought, there was no luck at all in standing still. The next morning he would crawl forward again. If luck wouldn't find him, he would do his best to make his own.

Misfortune seemed to hang on him like day-before smoke.

Winter here arrives, stays, persists, goes away a little, then comes back and people start leaping off the bridges. That's approximately March, when jumping is at its apogee, but even then, winter isn't over. What it likes to do is go away for a week in April and then return for three days and finish grandpa off.

Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)

Some people are born to suffer. It never stops for them, not for a second .... they are made for it - sustained by it.

Remember, Joseph, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes.

And we're going to be here for fifty years, so whatever is not right, we'll get right.

The greatness of Intel is not that it is smarter than other companies (though it may well be) or that it is too clever and competent to make a false move (we've just seen a stunning example of the very opposite) but that it has consistently done better than any company, perhaps ever, at recovering from its mistakes.

the Inventing merit badge, which required a Scout to not only invent a new device or mechanism but also to obtain a U.S. patent for it. Needless to say, not many Scouts ever attempted this badge during its four-year existence and it is something of a miracle that nine Scouts managed to earn it.

She only had a few coins to her name, but she had the Midas touch when it came to turning destitution into dreams.

You have to gnaw the bone that's thrown you.

I don't plan. Anyone in my way can either step aside or I will step over them.

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You miss 100% of the shots you don't make - Wayne Gretzky

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."3 It was one of the greatest speeches of Dr. King's career

Forget about weak or strong, aggressive or passive. There are no passive characters, there are no weak ones. There is winning and there is losing, but every actor must fight for something he wants and needs. If you are concerned about getting what you need, then you will never let preconceived judgments get in your way.