Quotes About Persistence

There's always time to launch your dreams

The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

God's time never stops.

You know, people really know me from 'The Best Man.' I've done five other movies since then, but it always comes back to 'The Best Man.' It was time to do the sequel.

The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.

All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.

Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.

All I know is that when I come to the ballpark I'm going to be on time and give 100 percent. I know that I have to do that to keep my job.

Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

I dream about running all the time.

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.

I go into every story thinking I'm going to fail. I think about that all the time - I think it's going to be terrible. Every story is like the first I've ever done.

I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.

Dreams have a hard time surviving when confronted with reality.

It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.

It's been a long time since I've won a race in anything.

Create your own path. Cultivate it. It'll take time. It doesn't happen overnight. I was an actor for many years before I got behind the camera.

It took seven years from the time I wrote Mad Men until it finally got on the screen. I lived every day with that script as if it were going to happen tomorrow. That's the faith you have to have.

Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it.