Quotes About Persistence

I understand that there are a few roles out there and tons of actors. Just because you don't get the big break doesn't mean you're not worthy or that what you have to offer isn't valid.

Nothing worthy is easy, whether you are a male or a female.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in 'Falling,' I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work. I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.

Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

I like to say I'm determined; some people would call it stubborn. It depends on your perspective.

Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

What I really like about 'Grit' - especially being the guy who goes on TV every week and says 'Never Give Up' and who truly tries to live his life to that credo - we recruited 16 people who said, 'I will never give up.' And the only way they can leave the contest is by doing the one thing they said they never would.

Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to write every day. If there's a better school for would-be novelists, I don't know what it is.

It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

I wound up sticking with violin because it was the strongest current in my life.

I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama.

We went down for pilot season, I got Full House, and we wound up never leaving.

I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama.

I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.