Quotes About Perseverance

Take time. Look at it as a 'journey of discovery.' The more time you invest in preparing, the easier it is to complete your journey. A Chinese proverb says, "Wait long and strike fast.

Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again

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Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we figure out how to really enjoy life.

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Never Give Up!

I often found myself curled up at midday on a hard wooden bench, snoring lightly, drooling on the back of my hand, trying to sleep off my exuberance—and then waking to a headache and a bushel of horrible paragraphs. Admittedly

And while his brain kept whirring with the problems of a unified theory, his body became frail and thin, wrinkles fell over him like elephant skin, and began to slouch, as if with each new day he was carrying a slightly heavier pack on his back.

Marriage is the unsuccessful attempt to make something lasting out of an incident...

There was no hastiness or anger in his response. He did not take the disobedience personally. He had trained many horses and mules and knew the value of patient perseverance. In the end, the twelve-month-old submitted his will to his father, sat as he was placed, and became content—even cheerful. He was now ready to quietly sit through three hours of the most boring church service a sleeping patriarch ever attended.

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

You can't put a limit on aything. The more you dream, the father you get.

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

I think everything is possible as long as long as you put your mind, work and time into it.

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

I knew I was not a failure in any way, and so did those close to me. It doesn't matter if you fall short; it is never a failure to go after your goals with everything you've got.

That's it. Thats Bob's game. His drill...is really quite simple- make a habit of doing things other's weren't willing to do.

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

Aubrey Fitzwilliam hated being dead. It made things much harder than they needed to be.

If he only made three miles a day, so be it. Better to have those three miles behind him than ahead.

Of course it's not simple. Who said it was simple? But you know what? Lots of loose ends don't ever get tied up. Play the hand you're dealt. Move on.

T]hey had killed him. [...] Murdered him, except he would not die. Would not die, he vowed, because he would live to kill his killers.