Quotes About Perseverance

It seems obvious that any serious reader will have learned long ago how much time to give a book before choosing to shut it. It's only the young, still attached to that sense of achievement inculcated by anxious parents, who hang on doggedly when there is no enjoyment.

From the very beginning and indeed prior to anybody going out I knew very well what to expect from the people in command in the U.S.A. However, the best not the worst must be made of them, and there is little doubt that eventually things will be all right.

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his oars and was rowing again. 'May I presume to suggest,' yelled Shandy giddily to Davies, 'that we preoceed the hell out of here with all due haste.' Davies pushed a stray lock of hair back from his forehead and sat down on the rower's thwart. 'My dear fellow consider it done.

Summoning up the images in my imagination was easy. Getting them out of my head and onto the canvas was harder. The hardest thing. Sometimes, I thought, the impossible thing. Often, I thought, the only worthwhile thing.

And, most importantly: Thank you, Satan! I couldn't have done it without you.

A marriage is hard work. Worth every bit of it though.

My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

His [Luke]letter went something like this: "Dear Mr President, Thank you for introducing me to the Hall of Famers and for showing me the Oval Office. I think if I work really hard I will have a chance for both." The next time I saw the president I told him about my son's ambitious plans. His response was beautiful: "Never get between a boy and his dreams

Fuck "try." Trying is an open invitation to failure, just another way of saying, "If I fail, it's not my fault, I tried.

Being relentless means demanding more of yourself than anyone else could ever demand of you, knowing that every time you stop, you can still do more. You must do more.

Decide. Commit. Act. Succeed. Repeat.

Being the best means engineering your life so you never stop until you get what you want, and then you keep going until you get what's next. And then you go for even more.

I don't care how good you think you are, or how great others think you are—you can improve, and you will. Being relentless means demanding more of yourself than anyone else could ever demand of you, knowing that every time you stop, you can still do more. You must do more. The minute your mind thinks, "Done," your instincts say, "Next.

Anyone can start something; very few people can finish.

Do. The. Work. Every day, you have to do something you don't want to do. Every day. Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable, push past the apathy and laziness and fear.

In anything you do, it takes no talent to work hard. You just have to want to do it.

I'm not telling you to love it. I'm telling you to crave the result so intensely that the work is irrelevant.

Relentless is about never being satisfied, always driving to be the best, and then getting even better.

You don't have to love it. You just have to believe it's worth it in the end.

no trainer or coach or expert can make you good or great or unstoppable if you're not going to do the work, if you're waiting for someone to make it happen for you. It's on you. And that's why I'm telling you all of this, not because I want you to know what I do for my guys, but because I want you to know what you have to do for yourself.

Get comfortable being uncomfortable, or find another place to fail.

Figure out what you do, then do it. And do it better than anyone else.

You already know what you have to do, and you know how to do it. What's stopping you?