Quotes About Persistence

We must acknowledge that we are the dreams of our ancestors and that our fight will require a long view and the ability to bounce back from one painful setback after another.

Dedication. The battle we're in requires "the act of devoting all of one's energy, effort, and abilities to a certain task," as the Muhammad Ali Center boasts on its walls. Folks

The world is full of men with strange obsessions who will stop at nothing to get what they want.

They lived their lives as if their sights were set on the clouds beyond the hill they were climbing.

In one such rented attic room was a young man who made his living selling fish. Every morning he would get up before the crack of dawn and carry his tin box to the riverbank, where he bought his goods. He worked furiously for an entire month, and then at the end of the month he put on his finest clothes and went out to buy a prostitute—as if that made it all worthwhile.

When I stood behind Yama-san in his director's chair next to the camera, I felt my heart swell with that same feeling—"I've made it at last." The work he was doing was the kind that I really wanted to do. I was standing in the mountain pass, and the view that opened up before me on the other side revealed a single straight road.

Nightmares never last. One day you wake up and they're gone

Once in the racket you're always in it.

WHAT DO WE WANT?! PATIENCE! WHEN DO WE WANT IT?! NOW!

Hard work pays off in the end, but laziness pays off now.

The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in every break of the game every minute, every second.

If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

successful positioning requires consistency. You must keep at it year after year.

We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

And I know it seems easy," said Piglet to himself,"but it isn't every one who could do it.

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

that the majority of success in life is about showing up.

Far too often we lose patience with the process and quit too soon, missing out on what we could have gained.

Do not buy into the idea that you have to keep relocating to accomplish your dreams in life.

We're all capable of more, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Keep chasing those dreams, through hard work you'll eventually catch them.

It was dawn by the time the detective showed up; tired and weary. Tired because he'd been called from his bed before dawn, weary because he'd spent his life looking at the bad side of human nature and that wasn't going to change.

This is not the end. This is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." All in Churchill's deep, rumbling, and fiercely inspiring voice.