Quotes About Persistence

Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.

You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.

The only purpose of starting is to finish

It's just a question of eliminating obstacles.

There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn't done with basketball yet, and I'm still not done.

I have a personal motto that I live by, which is feel the fear and do it anyway. If you fail, you get up and you keep trying again.

It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

I throw just as hard as ever - it just takes twice as long to get there.

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.

She hasn't run faster than herself before

Only a monomaniac gets anything done.

Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

Don't punk out and don't quit.

You fall off the horse and you get back on.

No one can take away your right to fight and never surrender.

Neither a space station nor an enlightened mind can be realized in a day.

The late start is due to the time.

I've worked hard all my life.

The mantra I used was 'find a way.'

A running machine, that glides over mud, crud and goop.

I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.