Quotes About Persistence

I have always taken a step forward and believe that slow and steady wins the race.

Slow but steady wins the race.

You take wins where you can get them because they're not easy to come by. You win at the major-league level, and you've done something.

My aim is to be the best in the world and perform in each of Pakistan's wins.

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race.

And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996.

If you have a character who wins all the time - well, if you have a character that loses and wins, it makes him more alive. Bugs Bunny, for example, didn't always win.

Life is a marathon and you have to pace yourself. I believe that slow and steady wins the race, so in that way, I've been training for a marathon my whole life.

You know, for me, you don't chase wins.

Some failures should not overshadow all the wins.

If you've got talent, stick with it... because talent wins out, without a doubt.

You have to find what you're really passionate about, throw yourself into it, and focus on those small wins.

Eleven wins is hard to come by.

I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up.

I didn't get a pilot slot my first time trying. We Texans don't give up easy, and everything we've accomplished is just the beginning.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

I left school my senior year to do a play at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas. Then while I was doing a play, I auditioned for Juilliard. I got in over the summer, and they told me, 'You have to graduate high school to come here. You don't need the SATs, but you do need to graduate high school.' I finished over the summer through correspondence.

I started a newspaper business in North Texas and I started a quinceanera media company... so when I wanted to get into broadcasting I started my own television pilot. That led to years of free work but I was never afraid to just do it and go to people with the power to say yes to breakthrough.

I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around.

I'm from Texas and actually went to a regular high school, but every day after school I'd run to dance class and practice a lot and then go back the next day and stuff like that.

By 2013, at the age of 29, I was failing. I had left two good jobs in succession to complete a novel I'd been tooling around with since 2009, had enrolled in a graduate programme in Texas, as far away from home as possible, to finish it - and yet: what did I have to show for it after five years of work?

One thing I have learned from Johnny Faulk, Texas, and life, is that since you don't always win, you got to learn to enjoy just fightin' the good fight.