Quotes About Persistence

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

I could play ball all day. That's all I want to do.

My path is exactly where I want it to be. I'm doing my thing. I'm getting better with every album.

You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.

I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing

When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best.

You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

He resisted for a while and there were some legal boundaries, you know, keeping me from being near him or his family, but in the end, love overcame. And I got what I wanted. I always get what I want.

Our loving Heavenly Father wants us to become more like him. God understands that we get there not in an instant, but by taking one step at a time.

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and Im willing to do without until I get it.

I'm trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It's like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.

People who don't want to weather some of the rough periods miss out on something better.

If you want somethin', go get it. Period.

I believe persistence is a major key to success in any great endeavor. I want to remind folks to PERSIST in whatever they are tackling at the moment!

Be who you want to be, do what it takes to be that way, and in time, you will have what you want in life.

As an actor, you act in order to make a living. Then, when you can make a living, you start acting because you want to do what you love to do. I need to remind myself of that a lot.