Quotes About Perseverance

You can't sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.

It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

Reality is something you rise above.

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

I never think about losing.

Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.

If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.

Take action every day - some small dose at a time.

If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

If something stands between you and your success - move it. Never be denied.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.

Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them.

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.