Quotes About Persistence

The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.

...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.

If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.

Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.

Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease.

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.

Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.

Leadership is like exercise. Do it everyday, the results take time but you will see them. It's the little things.

Deadwood did not kill itself!

If a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect.

I never allow of any difficulties. The great secret of being useful and successful is to admit of no difficulties.

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

I eat "NOs" for breakfast.

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

start something, with a knowledge to end it.

I will never abandon one opportunity and wait for another. We have not reached the goal we are striving for. What you see now is nothing compared to our vision…just tiny parts of what lies ahead.

Embracing failure is the stepping stone to success

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning