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Quotes About Persistence

The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes.
~ Spike Lee
For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right.
~ William Cowper
We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth
~ Ian McEwan, Atonement
A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.
~ Stephen King, Bag of Bones
Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.
~ Nathanael Emmons
Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!
~ George Sand
The question is one of faith. Faith in my talent. Faith in my decisions. And faith in the idea that the truth, even if it can't pay my bills, can still set me free.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star.
~ Cathy Moriarty
The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good.
~ Bonnie Jo Campbell
Let it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you to the ground. You let it be, it crawls up your walls.
~ Colum McCann
The truth is out there somewhere, but the dog needs to be walked.
~ D. T. Max
sometimes to find truth one must move mountains -Kohler
~ Dan Brown
The staggering babies embody the deepest truth about deep practice: to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.
~ Daniel Coyle
I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.
~ Daphne Gottlieb
The truth is that problems won't just go away.
~ David Cottrell
Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally.
~ Frederick Lenz
The truth is my development I hope is the same way as everything, which is, I succeed some, I fail some, and I keep slugging away at it. I really enjoy it. It's fun.
~ George Clooney
One must keep repeating the Truth.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The biggest misconception people have is that quality is all that matters. The truth is that quality helps, but there's a ton of high-quality things that don't go anywhere.
~ Jonah Peretti
The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.
~ Joyce Meyer
I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.
~ Lydia M. Child
The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.
~ Mahatma Gandhi