Quotes About Perseverance

Failure is not a prerequisite for success.

Ben Saunders explicaba que durante su travesía en solitario por el Polo Norte (treinta y un maratones seguidos, setenta y dos días) la «gran decisión» se le presentaba como algo tan imponente que en su día a día se limitaba a decisiones del tipo: «Llegar a aquel trozo de hielo que está a unos metros».

You may feel out of your element at times. You might even feel like you suck. That's all right. You can hire your way out of that feeling or you can learn your way out of it. Try learning first. What you give up in initial execution will be repaid many times over by the wisdom you gain.

Sometimes abandoning what you're working on is the right move, even if you've already put in a lot of effort. Don't throw good time after bad work.

Berlin, "Try, Try Again, or Maybe Not," New

Cut your ambition in half. You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.

Also, don't be timid about your conclusions. Sometimes abandoning what you're working on is the right move, even if you've already put in a lot of effort. Don't throw good time after bad work.

Best of all, this "solve your own problem" approach lets you fall in love with what you're making. You know the problem and the value of its solution intimately. There's no substitute for that. After all, you'll (hopefully) be working on this for years to come. Maybe even the rest of your life. It better be something you really care about.

The way you build momentum is by getting something done and then moving on to the next thing. No one likes to be stuck on an endless project with no finish line in sight.

Most of the galaxy's beings were soft—they grew up sheltered and spent the rest of their lives trying to make sure they stayed ignorant and indolent. Phasma was anything but soft—and by the time she could walk, she had understood there was no such thing as safety. There was only survival, which was the product of ceaseless struggle.

trophy room. "This room is on the site where my grandmother spent her very first night here," Stax said. "That was just a hole hacked out of the hillside. Grandmother didn't even have a bed. She huddled inside all night, listening to monsters howl on the other side of a dirt wall. And look at it

But maybe the only way to achieve the impossible was to be unaware that was what you were trying to do.

Failure most of all. The greatest teacher failure is.

Jakku had trained her to do two things better than anyone else could. The first was to salvage broken things. The second was to wait.

head first, But Kate was still

I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.

After twenty years of systematic observation I've decided the most common mistake is for one to get stuck on the "plains of hesitation." The plains of hesitation are a metaphorical place where the best laid plans and good intentions expire.

The self-assured Mr. White had made a single big bet and kissed one frog expecting it to turn into a prince, but had forgotten the rule of frogs and princes. You need to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince!

When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

of those who had not measured up to its demands were many. He was one of the few who had measured up. He had earned the privilege to call these mountains his home. In return, he

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.

What does it feel like to get out of bed in the morning? It feels like pulling a sequoia out of the earth with your bare hands.

I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.

We don't know how much our bodies can endure until we make cruel demands of them.