Quotes About Persistence

He did not deviate from this routine by one jot, regardless of the weather.

Another boy might have been crestfallen, but Rockefeller was the sort of stubborn person who only grew more determined with rejection.

Since I don't know where I'm going, I guess I'm in no real hurry to get there.

Do this one thing.

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.

I spoke to ears that refused to hear.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

What of all the entrepreneurs that fail? Well, many do, particularly the successful ones; often several times. And if you ask them the secret of their success, they'll tell you it's all that they learned in their struggles along the way; yes, it's what they learned from failing.

The best measure of success is how you deal with failure

Nadie puede decir si habríamos insistido, dada la pobreza de nuestros medios de investigación, si hubiésemos conocido la verdadera proporción de lo que estábamos buscando»

La sostenía una voluntad de hierro, un gusto maníaco por la perfección y una increíble testarudez»

la realidad, aunque rebelde, termina por parecerse a nuestros sueños, si éstos se sueñan con la suficiente perseverancia.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.

my time pulling up the beastly things.

There was another twenty miles to cover tomorrow, most of it on foot.

The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.

She said surprisingly, in a voice as thin as a flute: Are you a good man? I like to think so, but her candor stopped me. No, I said, I'm not. I keep trying, when I remember to, but it keeps getting tougher every year. Like trying to chin yourself with one hand. You can practice off and on all your life, and never make it.

inside of three months had made his way from humble circumstances to the very front rank of American airmen.

It's really easy to be patient and sympathetic with someone when it's theoretical, or only for a little while. It's a lot harder to deal with someone's craziness when it's constant. . . .

How strong these people were to leave such a lasting impression.

Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!

If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the Earth and everything in it...