Quotes About Perseverance

How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?

I had a decision to make. To me, it wasn't a hard one: if I could ride, I was going. Crashes were unavoidable in cycling, and so was bad luck, and if you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Make every obstacle an opportunity." And that's what we did.

Make every negative into a positive," as my mother says. Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs...And she does it while smiling the whole time. It's kind of a joke, but then again it's not, especially if you're a male pro trailing in her wake. To have this woman in the middle of such a suffer fest out there crushing people and smiling all the way...

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

Gibney, we gotta win this fucking Tour de France.

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

But you can't quit, either. Even if you have to walk to the finish line… ~ Linda Armstrong

You don't just fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else.

I've learned how to take out my own stitches: all you need is a pair of fingernail clippers & a strong stomach.

Who's going to work hard for someone who doesn't win? ~ Jim Ochowicz

Sloth is the natural result of unrewarded hard work among the poor, reason enough for them to be prickly.

Nora Dunn When faced with no real friends, she went out into the world and made some, and to watch her try to create a life with meaning was touching.

There will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own.

Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.

And then he thought, profoundly, how there was something grand about living in hope, but also something terribly unreal and incomplete about it, because when you were hoping, you were not doing or living or experiencing the Now

You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae

Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

See this page of paper? It's blank," Scull said. "That, sir, is the most frightening battlefield in the world: the blank page. I mean to fill this paper with decent sentences, sir—this page and hundreds like it. Let me tell you, Colonel, it's harder than fighting Lee. Why, it's harder than fighting Napoleon. It requires unremitting attention

he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if one thought about them too much so that fear took over.

Death and worse happened on the plains.

The whole point of loyalty was not to change: stick with those who stuck with you.

The woman had won. In the end, it seemed they always did.