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Quotes About Perseverance

I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard.
~ Christopher McDougall
Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
~ Ralph Marston
Don't let the bastards get you down.
~ Barbara Walters
Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.
~ Arthur Leonard Schawlow
This is our world, and we must make the best of it.
~ Arthur Henderson
I try to be the best I can be at what I can do, and that's playing hard & rebounding.
~ Tristan Thompson
Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.
~ Hill Harper
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.
~ Mario Andretti
When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.
~ Natalie du Toit
I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.
~ Cate Blanchett
Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.
~ Joan Rivers
There are so many ways to lose, but so few ways to win. Perhaps the best way to achieve victory is to master all the rules for disaster, and then concentrate on avoiding them.
~ Victor Niederhoffer
Keep your chin up. No one expected you to save the world, otherwise you would have been born wearing a cape and tights. Just do the best you can.
~ John Assaraf
The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.
~ Raymond Chandler
Any game could be my last, and any at bat could be my last. I'd hate to think it ended without me giving my best effort.
~ Darin Erstad
Always stay focused. Always give and try your best.
~ Tommy Hilfiger
If you do the best work you can, the reward is ultimately your self-satisfaction - the sense that you have done the best you can. And then there's that piece of how others respond.
~ Jerry Pinkney
You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
~ Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.
~ Oprah Winfrey
What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.
~ Jim Palmer
If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.
~ Brett Favre
All I am hoping for is to be able to work-I think my best work is still ahead of me-I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.
~ Mickey Rourke