Quotes About Persistence

I really tried to put my best foot forward all these years.

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

After I quit dancing, I tried a lot of jobs. But I could always bake.

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956.

I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.

On my tombstone it will say: 'I tried everything - nothing was easy.'

I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

I mean, I could tell that I really had... a precious gift. And I'm so glad that I have followed through with it and really used that gift and nurtured it, honed it, made it sharp and tried to use it as a tool now to make music and to make a living for my family.

We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'

I tried to get Primal Scream to come over to America several times.

Have you ever tried to split sawdust?

I like to say that the one thing that all people who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least tried.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Everything I've achieved has come from perseverance. I've never met another entrepreneur who had a painless path to success - everyone who tries to bring new ideas to the world is tested.

Corky is the one who never gives up. I never gave up. He faces obstacles, and he couldn't always reach his goals. But he tries to reach his dreams.

To me, spirituality means 'no matter what.' One stays on the path, one commits to love, one does ones work; one follows one's dream; one shares, tries not to judge, no matter what.

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.

I think we've all been in the middle of doing something we cared about, when someone coming in the room and saying 'hello' was annoying. I personally can understand that, as someone who tries to create.

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

Everything an artist does is scary, but we do it anyway. If someone tries to steer you off-course, push them outta the way and get back on course. Never giving up - that's what I truly believe all the greatest bands have done.

If someone, a director, tries to tell me the way to do something, I'm not good at adapting. I need time to go away and think about things.

When a filmmaker tries to make a good film and if he gets success in that then definitely it's a nice feeling.

If you give me six tries, I can probably land a kick flip.

Instead of a dedicated room, my best trigger is the actual habit of reading over the texts from the day before. Marking. Changing. Fussing. This ritual amounts to a habit of trust. Trust that I can make it better. That if I keep trying, I will come closer to something true.