Charles William Eliot Quotes

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

VW grows with the challenges. We continue to do, even when times are tough.

I always come back around. I make it work.

All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.

I haven't gotten stuck with something because I just keep going, and I keep doing different things.

Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.

Obstacles don't have to stop you.

Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance.

Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

A true champion can adapt to anything.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.

I never give up on anything, because you come back around, and suddenly the thing you thought you'd never do is relevant.

One of the things I always thought about as a young coach was finding solutions to things that happened, but the most important thing I always referred to was never giving in.

I'm just one of those people that, if there's a problem, I want to work through it. Push through it and do everything I can. Anything.

I've proven I can hang in there, go through adversity, and pull tricks out of the bag.

If something doesn't go your way, then look for another way. If something's broken, fix it.

I showed that I can not get frustrated, that I could come from behind, that I can trade, if need-be.

It was frustrating when the managers would change; you'd go to the bench and try to work your way back into the team. But it makes you stronger.

I've achieved everything I've wanted to achieve, so I'm not scared of failure. I never gave up, however bad the injuries got.