Quotes About Persistence

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light -Aristotle

I'm tired of it. I'm sick of picking up the pieces and marching bravely onward. I want things to work out just once.

Arnold A. Dallimore

Maintain your speed no matter what happens! For the tikbalang shall chase you --- I regret to say...to the ends of the earth!

If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.

The path to Mecca is extremely hard and stony, and the worst of it is that you never quite get there after all!

His was the kind of perseverance that, for the fun of it, will perish in an attempt.

We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.

If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream.

From the bodybuilding days on, I learned that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

Mountains are the means, the man is the end. The goal is not to reach the top of the mountains, but to improve the man.

Problems seldom go away if they're ignored.

A hundred failures would not matter, when one single success could change the destiny of the world.

There was no objection when he said: "I'm going after it." Nor did he expect there to be; his life was now his own, to do with as he pleased. He

like everything that was worth doing, that would take time and practice.

there were some who still found time to repeat an ancient and never-answered question: "Where do we go from here?

Then I remembered that these men didn't seem any cleverer than I was; they were highly trained, that was all. If one worked hard enough, one could master anything.

It was fascinating to watch that agile mind trying one opening after another, testing and rejecting all the theories that Stormgren himself had abandoned long ago.

A hundred failures would not matter, when a single success could change the destiny of the world.

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