Quotes About Persistence

And it's hard for me to take a stand When I would take her anyway I can.

Keep moving if you love life, and keep your troubles well behind you.

Americans Never Quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We Make History. -John McCain

It took a couple more weeks, and a commitment to being a real pain in the ass...

But, as Winston Churchill observed, "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

When there's a will to fail, obstacles can be found.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

I had wanted to become a novelist before I even knew how to read, back when I could only consume books by having them read to me, and none of them seemed long enough. They left too many questions unanswered, too many ramifications unexplored.

Men do not fail they give up trying.

Remember what we taught you to do when you get to the end of your rope?" "Make a knot and hang on," Ayers says.

One of the best feelings in the world was finding something you were sure you'd lost forever.

Satisfaction was not to be gained from finishing the task; satisfaction was to be gained from the process.

when you get to the end of your rope?" "Make a knot and hang on," Ayers says.

Do all brilliant ideas seem brilliant from the very beginning, or do they seem far-fetched until they come into clearer focus?

It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done.

We were knee deep in a river of crap,and I was wearing metaphorical flip-flops. -Jason

Not one of our tears, not one of our prayers is lost, and they have a power that many people never suspect.

The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.

There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.

After the first attempt of the Nike Breaking2 project Eluid Kipchoge ran the fastest marathon in history 2:00:25. After he finished he said this. The world now is only 25 seconds away - Eluid Kipchoge

Marathon is life. And life is where you progress.

to avoid feeling disappointed, one has to expect that things will, most probably, not work the first time.

Lai Tsin immediately set about his work.

With great difficulty we hunted the dog-banditti into their caves of the city, and bribed them into giving back their victim. Money was the least thing to think of in such case; I would have given a thousand pounds if I had had them in my hand. The audacity of the wretched men was marvellous. They said that they had been 'about stealing Flush these two years,' and warned us plainly to take care of him for the future.