Quotes About Persistence

Good. Now…if you trust in yourself…" "Yes?" "…and believe in your dreams…" "Yes?" "…and follow your star…" Miss Tick went on. "Yes?" "…you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Good-bye.

I wanted Bird Dog to play that game like I wanted a sack of hammers across the jaw.

Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.

Every day, I walked. It was not a meditation, but survival, one foot in the front of the other, with my eyes focused down, trying to stay steady.

Did I have the courage to forge a path

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. Nikola Tesla

When you cannot see where you are going, when you do not know your final destination, every hour is its own eternity.

Mutlu sonlar kendiliÄŸinden gelmez.Bazen bunun için çaba harcamak gerekir.

THE GIRL WAS TWENTY-THREE POUNDS OF NO! NO, BED! NO, SLEEP! No, no, no!

Survival is only the first step.

The greatest challenge in writing your book is maintaining the drive to finish it.

But roses! Even through winter they persisted, bare and thorny, like angry old women crouched in the cold.

It is by persevering that one conquers difficulties, not by running away from them. One who perseveres is sure to triumph. Victory goes to the most enduring. Always do your best and the Lord will take care of the results. Words of The Mother, vol.14, p.173

If you will it, it's not a dream.

If you really want it, then it is no fairy tale

If you will it, it is no dream

Not this time.

Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.

If you are lost in a forest at night, you can follow the North Star to find your way out. You follow the North Star, but your goal is to get back home; it's not to arrive at the North Star.

We have to practice continuously and not just superficially. It can't be done half-heartedly. We have to be determined to grasp our mind. A period of continuous diligent practice will surely lead to transformation

If we practice conscious breathing, we will calm the turmoil and sorrow in our minds whenever they appear. If at first our practice is not successful, we continue until we see the results. When we see that the practice works, slowly our faith in it grows. Our faith is always based on empirical evidence. We do not believe it just because it has been repeated many times by others.

Most stand-ups, once they have done it, think of it as their default job. I'm pretty sure Jon Stewart still feels that way now. You are a stand-up first; other things come and go.

Jon Jones is at the top for a long time, can't say enough about him.

I went to a masterclass with Jonathan Pryce who said that a successful actor is not a famous actor, it's an actor who acts. And I have been incredibly fortunate to have worked constantly from the moment I left drama school, so I achieved what I set out to do. I am an actor.