Quotes About Persistence

Mozart labored for more than ten years until he produced any work that we admire today.

They may appreciate endowment, but they admire effort, for no matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

The Brainology program kind of made me change the way i work and study and practice for school work now that i know how my brain works and what happens when i learn.

La mentalidad de crecimiento es la creencia de que las habilidades pueden cultivarse, pero no te dice cuánto cambio es posible ni cuánto tiempo requerirá. Y tampoco significa que todo, como las preferencias o los valores, pueda cambiarse.

It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.

Gerry and I were able to keep enough hits flowing out of our Baldwin Acrosonic spinet piano to feel confident about being able to pay our mortgage.

Love will find a way.

This was life. You made the mistakes, you took the knocks, you carried on, you got stronger. Giving up, rolling over, dying – that wasn't an option.

He felt blind and deaf, the way he did when he was close to a good idea but couldn't tap into it. He'd told Lizzie about that feeling once, and Lizzie had said, "That just means you aren't very smart, Reeve. Smart people have good ideas without having to be blind and deaf first.

Few things in every-day experience are harder than just to keep pegging away at a task which seems doomed to failure, yet which we cannot in conscience abandon.

In nothing that we can produce here is there at present the slightest chance of any return on our labor. Yet we keep on working -- really harder than ever. I wonder sometimes whether we are any wiser than the ants.

If you knew what I went through to get into your home, that I messed up my back trying to know you, inside and out, you'd judge me for it.

There comes a point when the universe needs to get on your side or go fuck itself and the universe gets in line.

You gotta ignore people until they get in line.

It's a pathetic thing, hope, hard to kill.

Everyone wants everything right now but you are able to wait with Such small hands.

I have drawn the line, and I am still on this side of it.

So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different forms. The diet form, the romance form, the addiction form, the overriding hunger for this purchase or that job, this relationship or that one. Hunger may be insatiable by nature, it may be fathomless, but our will to fill it, our often blind tenacity in the face of it, can be extraordinary.

One step at a time, Jonathan moved towards his destiny.

Never. Ever. Give. Up. No doesn't always mean no. Sometimes it's just takes a little work to find the yes.

To the ends of the earth, madam, to say nothing of back and forth in this garden.

I had to hold fast to the end, and die of living.

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

The most important lesson I've learned is that first you have to dream, and then you have to believe in your dreams. That is the only way for them to come true.