Quotes About Persistence

Before enduring it we will endure it.

Draw, Antonio, draw, said Michelangelo to one of his apprentices. Draw and do not waste time.

Again time elapsed.

The male students stole my equipment and tried unsuccessfully to sabotage my lab work. They told endless filthy jokes and cussed extensively whenever I was within earshot. I learned not to react. They made passes that stopped just short of actual assault. One charmer pinched my rear end so hard I had a bruise on my rump for a week. After I stomped his instep he never did it again.

fine enough, but getting there is no pleasure." She stood with her hands

You may know that a cascade of water can wear away stone, but you can't predict what shape the rock will take at any given moment.

It's only four pages, five days a week. It won't kill you. You can't "fall behind" and you can't "get ahead." Every day is a new one thousand words.

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.

Now this is a delusion, but it's my delusion and I'm sticking with it. It's sort of like: I have problems but problems don't have me.

As Winston Churchill said, 'Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts

All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.

Play on, when you're losing the game. Play on, cuz you're going to make mistakes. It's always worth the sacrifice, even when you think you're wrong.

If you hanker after accomplishment, you will aspect raw eggs and faultfinders.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

Hope can be like a plant that sprouts and grows and keeps people alive. But it can also be a wound that refuses to heal.

Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them." "Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.

Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.

Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not." The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. "Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.

Heroes aren't always the ones who win," she said. "They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.