Quotes About Persistence

It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.

A fan of L.A. Law reruns and Law & Order, she'd put lawyer down on the list, hung up the phone, and taken the LSAT. Four years of night school and a shitload of student loans later, she was an attorney.

The following ten throws went a variety of places. I never hit the target, but I was getting closer. Isabella was laughing so hard she wrote "Please stop can't breathe" in the dirt with her finger.

The responses were the same, sometimes almost word for word with what he had said earlier. As it continued, officers appeared on the far side of the glass partition and Fritz stopped, sometimes turning to the federal men—"You

The hour was late, but the men, members all of an elite corps of law enforcement agents, wanted to "wrap the case up" before dawn.

I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while.

On a related note, I think for many of us, the first step in becoming a good writer is to write crap. In all seriousness, none of us are born knowing how to write. Almost all of us will produce a lot of really lousy stories before we start to get good. (Not all of us will choose to publish those lousy stories, but that's a whole separate discussion...)

A minimum of three and a half hours. Probably closer to five." The vent's valve mechanism was meant to be serviced from the other side. It took half an hour of fighting to find a decent angle with the wrench and remove the bolts. She finally managed to tug it loose, at which point she had to spend another twenty minutes using her torch to cut the damned thing into smaller pieces so she could get it out of her way.

Discipline is difficult. But without discipline, you will never be a great negotiator.

He was able to hear the world say "no" to him in the form of failed experiments;

Winning isn't everything, but the will to prepare to win is everything.

Take responsibility for the bad decision, learn from it, embrace the failure, and soldier on without fear because you are only one decision away from getting back on track. But

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

It's Better to Fail at What You Love Than Fail at What You Don't.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

Determined people working together can do anything.

Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.

No matter how often we fail in any endeavor, we never get used to the feeling of depression that assails us after each successive failure.

When we seek God for answers, we must persevere in prayer, letting it build up day after day until the force of it becomes a mighty tide pushing over all obstacles.

Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream dissapears.

It's not how you start that's important, but how you finish!

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.