Quotes About Perseverance

I have always treated golf as a job. Back in the day it was in a pro shop. That win opened another door, it was a way to jumping on the stepping stone to where I am today. That's the mental attitude you need to keep succeeding.

Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.

People don't understand this: if you want to have a really good shot at succeeding, there are doors you have to slam in people's faces and say, 'This is my priority, and you can't depend on me to help you.' I was never good at that.

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

I don't think God said we should all be soft. My job is to compete, and the best prevails. I will continue to play, and that's the way I'm succeeding in my life. If I hit you by mistake, all I can say is 'I'm sorry,' and I keep moving on.

Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks.

We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.

Always make your team around you feel like you are succeeding, even though you know, way down deep, it's a long shot. You have to be the fighter and the leader and the one who instills energy and hope in others.

I couldn't stand the thought of not succeeding; failure was more than I could deal with.

Succeeding against an army of strawmen might feel good as a speech, but in reality, the world is filled with extraordinarily difficult challenges and very real consequences as a result of how we face them.

Certainly, I had a wonderful push from my publisher and got very lucky. I'm very aware of what it means to have a publisher back you. But your job as a writer, no matter what else is happening, is to continue to produce work-whether you're succeeding or failing.

I had a really strange period in my early 20s with the industry, and not succeeding the way I wanted to, and I put a lot of pressure on myself.

As a musician, you kinda get used to failure in life, and then when things actually start succeeding, it's a very interesting feeling.

The way I look at it, 29 teams fail every year and one team succeeds.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

People fall forward to success.

We fall forward to succeed.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.