Quotes About Persistence

Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

When I started competing, I was so broke that I had to tie my helmet with a piece of string. On one jump, the string snapped, and my helmet carried on farther than I did. I may have been the first ski jumper ever beaten by his gear.

It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.

When I first starting writing, and no one was paying me, in order to feel like I had a real job, I would get out of bed, put on a jacket and tie every morning, and sit down at my desk.

I can't tie my shoes. So many people have tried to teach me, but it's one of those things where I physically can't learn. I don't know why.

The challenge is always to find the good place to end the book. The rule I follow with myself is that every book should end where the next book would logically begin. I know that some readers wish that literally all of the threads would be neatly tied off and snipped, but life just doesn't work that way.

I think our path to the Olympics is a good metaphor for how you build a company. Our skill and commitment grew over time, day by day, stroke by stroke. So, sports are tied well with our entrepreneurial pursuits because you train for a few years, but there is no guarantee that you will succeed.

I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.

I feel like a tiger right now. There's nothing impossible if you get up and work for it.

I was a little tiger. I loved skating. You couldn't get me out of my skates. As many times as I could go to the rink, I was there.

My goal is to be the No. 1 golfer in the world, and I want to chase Tiger.

I need to play three or four weeks to get into a rhythm. I'm not like Tiger. I can't play one week and win.

Trust yourself in tight situations, but you need to have a plan. You might fail once, twice, but you will get better at it.

It was never easy, but I always tried my best and kept complaints out of my heart by holding tightly onto the hope that one day, I would read and write.

Remember, the only way to avoid a "no" is not to try

In the creative world, ideas are worthless unless they are acted on.

lack of execution is: "The single biggest obstacle to success and the cause of most disappointments.

Think of it this way: it can take 15 years to become an overnight success!

An extra 1% self-belief every day gets you almost 100% in three months

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn: It can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the wrong person's brow. —Charles Browder

Anything worth doing is worth doing badly

Howard Schulz approached 242 people to raise money for Starbucks and was rejected by 217 of them.

Walt Disney was turned down for a loan for Disney theme parks 300 times.