Quotes About Perseverance

Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental.

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

Golf is the cruelest of sports. Like life, it's unfair. It's a harlot. A trollop. It leads you on. It never lives up to its promises.... It's a boulevard of broken dreams. It plays with men. And runs off with the butcher.

Don Quixote would understand golf. It is the impossible dream

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

People fail for the most part because they shoot themselves in the foot. If you go for a long time without shooting yourself in the foot, other people start calling you a genius.

Success can be built upon repeated failues when the failures aren't taken personally; likewise, failure can be built upon repeated successes when the successes are taken personally.

There is nothing better than having to struggle and make your own way.

Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized--never knowing.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

The salt of the earth dissolves and the shit remains

My mother thinks that what keeps me going is a well of spitefulness.' ... 'I think she's right. I can feel it right here.

I had this real hardass for a tutorial in grad school,' Jeannine finally said. 'And this one time when I told him that maybe my project hadn't panned out because it had been too ambitious, he said that he'd always thought that the moral of the Icarus story was not 'Don't try to fly too high.' He said he thought it was 'Do a better job on the wings.

If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future.

You don't begin to live, until you've lost everything... I've lost everything three or four times. A perfect place to start.

manageable problem. "If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this fact, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future.

in their lives, becoming ever-more beaten down, will often be heard to say, "I knew that was going to happen." On the other hand, the winners in every arena of life seem to continue to win time after time and expect it as their due. As we go about our daily

If we focus our efforts and energy on doing our work instead of getting out of our work, everyone wins.

Struggles often serve to release the wisdom, patience, and strength we all possess but too seldom demonstrate." —JIM STOVALL