Quotes About Persistence

Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten at almost any point. I suppose you could say it is like life.

Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.

All of my life shown me that if you wanted something enough, if you were passionate enough, it would happen.

Life is worthwhile if you try. It doesn't mean you can do everything but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try.

Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.

Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

All my life I have wanted to skate, and all my life I have skated.

For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.

When I started, I decided to devote my life to it and not get sidetracked by all the other bullshit life has to offer

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

The key to life is resilience....We will always be knocked down. It's the getting up that counts.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.

No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Fail, fail again, fail better.

Work eight hours a day for a living and many more hours a day making movies and you'll work all your life to be a success overnight.

Life isn't about the number of times you're knocked down, it's about the number of times you get back up.

Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day.

To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.