Quotes About Persistence

Life has so many pages to turn, & this page doesn't mean the story is over. The story is never over.

I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.

Here's the thing, Grace," Cal said, a smile playing at the corner of his mouth. "Ever since that first day when you smacked me in the head with your field hockey stick-" "You just can't let that go, can you?" I muttered. He grinned fully now. "-and even when you hit me with the rake and dented my truck, and when you were spying on me from your attic and your dog was mauling me, Grace, I always knew you were the one for me.

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Believe in and follow your dreams.

I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.

In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.

What was the point of praying every day and believing in forgiveness if you weren't willing to accept this?

If there's one thing I never do, it's stop.

She waited for you in a thousand different ways.

I think maybe love can just...dissolve." "No, it does not," her mother said. "So how do--" "You hang on," her mother said. "Until your hands are bleeding, and still you do not let go.

Hope is a coin I carry; an American penny, given to me by a man I came to love. There were times in my journey when it and the hope it represented were the only things that kept me going.

Aquilo que você resiste, persiste.

There is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place… do the next thing with diligence and devotion.

colossal rigidity, whether in dinosaurs or dictatorships, has a very poor record of evolutionary survival.

Don't be committed to the guess, be committed to the process of guessing.

Maybe we'll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how things could be better. The world of human affairs has long been a shadowy place, but always backlit by the light of hope. Each person can add hope to the world. A resigned person subtracts hope. The more people strive, the more change becomes likely.

They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky -- or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

You have to go through it to get through it." That