Quotes About Perseverance

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

Hope is the last thing that dies. Maybe because hope is one of those dratted things that is truly, honestly, genuinely immortal.

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!

You can lose your freedom, your health, your honor, everything you love and care about. And yet, if you still have your purpose, you have lost nothing

We spend the next half an hour doing horrible things with our bodies. We line up and climb the first level of the scaffolding, holding on for dear life, and then we stand there on a three-foot narrow strip that is the ledge that hugs the wall, many of us shaking from a combination of terror and the abuse of previously unused muscle groups.

I do not accept this.

Few things are impossible if you know what needs to be done,

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

Get them off the Internet and stop them from looking for shortcuts. The human body does not adapt any faster than it did 30 years ago, so why should we expect performance gains to be accomplished faster today?

To paraphrase Steve Jobs, "I'm always amazed how overnight successes take a helluva long time.

It needs to hurt to break a promise; otherwise, it's too easy to let the moment pass.

She remembered reading somewhere that although the body ages and weakens, and the mind grows older and sometimes slower too, the human spirit never ages. When we age we may have difficulty in climbing stairs or leaping over fences, and our memories may not be quite as sharp as they were at 14, but we still feel the same inside as we felt when we were young and were just setting out on the great adventure which is life.

Make no mistake: the future is now about survival.

Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

When problems go beyond hope of solution, insanity comes creeping.

Remember that phrase, though. "Rise above it." It's useful when things get you down.

She despised people who gave way to self-pity. Weeping wouldn't do anyone any good.

And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.

If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.

Often the struggler has given up, When he might have captured the victor's cup. And he learned too late when the night came down, How close he was to the golden crown. Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint of the clouds of doubt. And you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems afar. So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit. And that's worth thinking about.

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping-stone to something better…" ~Harland "The Colonel" Sanders