Quotes About Persistence

I think the stress of having to continue to fight the fight day in and day out, whatever it is, that which keeps you driving. You can get to a place where you no longer want to do that.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

After more than twenty-five years in television, there are days when I feel like I'm just beginning, because I'm learning new things. I want to be better all the time.

I'll kind of tend to beat myself up because I just want it to sound better than better.

It's been a long time since I've been in the playoffs. I want to get back there.

I have always been the type of person to want to reach a goal no matter how far-fetched it was.

There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.

You have to be willing to look a certain way, and hold your body a certain way, until you get to where you want to go - I'm talking about musically, now.

I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.

When you really want something, you will give up a million times, but your heart keeps taking you back to the starting line.

Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

There's no shame in having to fight every day, but fighting every day, and presumably, if you're still alive to hear these words or read this interview, then you are winning your war. You're here.

The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy.

Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.

Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.

This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.

I would rather wear out than rust out.

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.

I shall strive to inculculate in my men the spirit of the chase.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength.