Quotes About Perseverance

It just proves that if you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.

El trabajo duro es como el interés compuesto de los bancos. La recompensa se acumula más rápido.

Failure is not just acceptable, it's essential.

As I see it, if you work more hours than somebody else, during those hours you learn more about your craft. That can make you more efficient, more able, even happier. Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster. The same is true in your life outside of your job.

Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can

Tenacity is a virtue, but it's not always crucial for everyone to observe how hard you work at something.

Brick walls are there for a reason. And once you get over them—even if someone has practically had to throw you over—it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.

The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us the chance to show how badly we want something.

Your patience will be both appreciated and rewarded.

I don't believe in no-win situations

But he made me realize that if I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today.

If you want something bad enough, never give up (and take a boost when offered). Brick walls are there for a reason. And once you get over them—even if someone has practically had to throw you over—it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit . . . and keep moving forward.

Becoming an Eagle Scout is just about the only thing you can put on your resume at age fifty that you did at age fourteen—and it still impresses. (Despite

I kept my mantra in mind: The brick walls are there for a reason. They're not there to keep us out. the brick walls are there to give us chance to show how badly we want something.

When we send our kids to play organized sports—football, soccer, swimming, whatever—for most of us, it's not because we're desperate for them to learn the intricacies of the sport. What we really want them to learn is far more important: teamwork, perseverance, sportsmanship, the value of hard work, an ability to deal with adversity. This kind of indirect learning is what some of us like to call a "head fake." There

it's a better mindset to help me get through each day.

Ne želim napustiti Tigra u meni. Ne mogu ni zamisliti da se pretvaram u Sivka. Netko me upitao kakav bih natpis želio na nadgrobnoj plo?i. - Randy Pausch: živio je trideset godina nakon terminalne dijagnoze - odgovorio sam. Vjerujte mi da bih u tih trideset godina unio mnogo veselja. Ali ako to ne može biti, onda ?u to veselje unijeti u sve što sada radim.

Tenacity got me over the brick wall.

brick walls are there for a reason. They're not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.

The same is true in your life outside of your job. All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.

Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster.

walls are there for a reason. And once you get over them—even if someone has practically had to throw you over—it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.

sometimes, the most impenetrable brick walls are made of flesh.