Quotes about Persistence

Willing to pay the price to be a perpetual learner.

The Law of Diminishing Intent says that the longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never do it.

Focus and follow through.

The longest distance between two points is a shortcut." That's really true. For everything of value in life, you pay a price.

Author Kenneth Blanchard says, "There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results." That's what leaders do. They commit and follow through.

1. Cop-outs. People who have no goals and do not commit. 2. Holdouts. People who don't know if they can reach their goals, so they're afraid to commit. 3. Dropouts. People who start toward a goal but quit when the going gets tough. 4. All-outs. People who set goals, commit to them, and pay the price to reach.

Before you get out of bed every morning, say 'do it now' fifty times. At the end of the day before you go to sleep, the last thing you should do is say 'do it now' fifty times.

The biggest gap between failure and success is the distance between I should and I did.

I will never surrender to discouragement or despair no matter what seeming obstacles may confront me.

When it comes to the thing you love to do, the thing you were made to do, aim high. The odds matter little. Whether you fall down along the way matters little.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.

Most people tend to underestimate the time it takes to achieve something of value, but to be successful, you have to be willing to pay your dues. James Watt spent twenty years laboring to perfect his steam engine. William Harvey labored night and day for eight years to prove how blood circulated in the human body. And it took another twenty-five years for the medical profession to acknowledge he was right.