Quotes About Persistence

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

Upon the whole, he added nothing to his own happiness by all the dangers, the fatigues, and the perpetual anxiety which he had incurred in the pursuit of unlimited power.

To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Life is like a puzzle, you do it correctly you come up with a clear picture.

That's the problem fighting for truth and justice. The battle never ends.

If they say no, do it. And if it feels good, then do it till you drop.

There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless.

The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.

Here's the funny thing about the world coming to an end. Once it gets going, it doesn't seem to stop.

If you're intent on making a path through the woods and you come to a tree that's in the way, the tree has to go or the path has to change course. You keep making those choices until you have your path. After the thing was done , I realized, You just do it~that's how you do it. You have to figure it out. 'There ain't no rules around here,' said Thomas Edison, 'We're Trying To Accomplish Something.

I do not know the word 'quit'. Either I never did, or I have abolished it.

Writing is born out of passion and desire, but it is bred, brought up, in obsession and compulsion. Feed your drive to persist. Damn your fears. Claim your writing as your own,

a while. Until about a year

She firmly believed in the doctrine of a certain wise man of our own day who says that to push your work before you is easy enough, but to pull it after you is very hard indeed. All

One thing just led to another, and today, here I am, acting in a daily soap, and I am just loving it.

One of my dreams growing up was to be in a soap.

Having now been on three different soap operas was more than I could have hoped for. Then going on to doing a movie and being on prime time TV, to my own show on Netflix - I couldn't have dreamed of what this has snowballed into.

I was a soccer player, but everyone said I was too physical so I moved over to football.

Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

I gave up soccer. But I don't think I can ever stop running.