The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.
Persistence
Victor MacFarlane
Raised in a cramped Ohio apartment where he had to sleep on pull out couch with his sister until he was 13, the firm
American Mark Warkentin tried to make the US Olympic swimming team in 1996, 2000, and 2004 – and failed every time. As he says,
Gaskell, Alleviating the sufferings of the losers in industrialization
The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumphs of
Tod Hays, Bobsledder
‘I have hung around long enough, and searched far enough, and found something I had a knack for.’ After being a bull rider, college
John Thompson, East Carolina football coach
As long as you keep trying, you’re not a failure…You can put numbers and records on it, but that doesn’t talk about your soul
Chris Gardner, Author, The Pursuit of Happyness
You learned about the training program at Dean Wittier while you were working as a medical supply salesman. How did you get admitted into
Sylvester Stallone
Jim Collins
There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, “We will never give up. We will never
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.