Quotes About Persistence

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

You cannot win if you cannot run.

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

It took mad failures for me to start to win.

In a normal series you can have a couple of bad games and still win it.

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

You should always be prepared to win. But as much as I tell myself that, I've accepted another kind of role. Racism undercuts expectation, something like that. I'm not saying that to excuse myself from anything, but I've lived all this time, and things don't happen.

That's my only plan: to keep doing good roles and win appreciation.

You can win it in the late innings if you never quit.

Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.

You got to be willing to be knocked out to win a fight. You got to be willing to get booed off the stage to get a standing ovation.

We can take a 'It was hard to get there.' But we ain't taking no loss. We're going to win.

I do something to win it or I don't do it at all.

I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.

I'm not going to change; I'm going to keep grinding. I'm going to do all I can to win.

I totally go against the theory that you got to win to be successful. It's how you handle your situation.

I had started as an average athlete - a normal boy. It took me three years to win a race. I was glad that I endured those three years - that I did not give up.

There's so many levels. You can rise on the day to win a national event or a world title but the level you need to rise to win an Olympics Games is another one altogether.

The only thing I can do is fight. Win or lose, I'm here every damn time.

Win or lose or draw, you always go back and critique your performance and say you could have done things better. Even if I put the guy away in one round, I can go back and say I made a lot of mistakes and need to tighten up. But that's the type of person I am. Improve. Improve. Improve. When I lose I come back stronger than ever.

Win or lose, I'm up all night. I've been that way since college - I'm going over everything in my head: woulda, coulda, shoulda.

I truly believe you have to take things as they come, win or lose, and keep believing in how you want to do things and how you want to play.