Quotes About Persistence

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

Even if you don't find what you think you're looking for, darling, it's the going out and looking for it that counts.

The lesson is simple. Be patient, stay put.

the only difference between a successful person and a person who gets lost is that one of them stopped dreaming!

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

But it's so hard, Papa... Those things that are most beneficial to us generally are. But they are also worth the effort.

Even warriors get weary when the battle doesn't end.

Being stubborn isn't a bad thing. Stubbornness could be defined as determination on steroids. As long as it's aimed in a God-honoring direction, being stubborn can be a gift because it gives you stick-to-itiveness.

Writing one page a day equals a 365 page novel in a year.

It had been awful, but I hadn't quit. I had persisted. In battle I had won.

Then I did what I should have done to start with. I taught myself to walk.

Keep going," Susan said. "The only way out of this is straight through.

One step, I thought. One step at a time.

I shrugged. "I can say that," I said. "It's harder to believe it.

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

The time to quit is before you wish you had.

They had no churches, but used the mountainous areas of this locality, meeting in mountain valleys, lonely places etc, meeting together at night rather than in the day. They had no pastors, but many believers organized themselves and produced their own leaders. They had no Bibles, but they recited them from memory, using hand-written copies and mimeographed sheets to meet their needs. Although some secret meetings were discovered, local Christian activities continued uninterrupted.

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Thinking about something and not going for it is like swimming without moving

How hard can it be?

Gathering wool, are we? (Ewan) Nay, merely practicing irritating you, and by the looks of your face, I'd say I'm doing a rather remarkable job of it. My mother always says that any effort worth pursuing is worth pursuing well. (Nora)

A mighty oak can be felled by even the tiniest of insects when one allows them to continually gnaw at it.

A mighty oak can be felled by even the tiniest of insects when one allows them to continually gnaw at it. (Callie's Mother)