Quotes About Persistence

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

My life is a testament to believing that if you want something you can make it happen.

No matter how hard life is, you are your own architecture. If you give up then there's no one that can help you, but if you want to keep building your future, then no one can stop you either.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve it.

And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, 'If you want it bad enough, and you're willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first you have to believe in yourself'.

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

Courage is how bad you want it.

If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule.

Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don't give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life's problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

Success doesn't come to you; you must go to it. The trail is well traveled. If you want to walk it, you can.

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find 'em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of 'em.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

The harder [role] the better. Definitely. When somebody turns around and says, "She can't do that," then that's the one I want to do.

The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro , like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.

All you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.