Quotes about Persistence

After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

That is how I look at it; to continue, to continue, that is what is necessary.

When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a solution anymore, I sometimes think: Friend, the fault is in your drawing. I don't regret for a moment that I did not go in for watercolour and oil painting straight away. I am sure I will catch up if only I struggle on, so that my hand does not waver in drawing and perspective.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed

exchanging pictures with other artists. In one word, with much energy, with a sincere personal feeling of colour in nature I would say an artist can get on here notwithstanding the many obstructions. And I intend remaining here still longer.

If you hear a voice within you say ,you cannot paint,' then by all means paint. And that voice will be silenced.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.