Quotes About Persistence

Practice yourself in little things and thence proceed to greater.

The distance doesn't matter only the first step is difficult.

It's a long old road but I know I'm gonna find the end.

Human successes like human failures are composed of one action at a time and achieved by one person at a time.

Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.

You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

My job starts at a quarter to seven in the morning, and you go right through until whatever time is necessary to finish up.

You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don't get a chance to catch on.

Practice every time you get a chance.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

As a filmmaker, you aspire to want to make movies that can hopefully stand the test of time, but you never know when that will happen or if that will happen.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick.

If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die Dreams see us through to forever Where clouds roll by For you and I

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again

God always strives together with those who strive.