Quotes About Persistence

When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping!

If life gives you lemons, a simple operation can give you melons.

It's a slow process, but quitting won't speed it up.

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

Don't ever give up hope until the very last moment. If you give up, the game is already over.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

Made Made Dane.

Mada Mada Dane

You still got a ways to go.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

But there was no time to rest on my laurels.

Acting is the most insecure of all the trades, the most risky. In their professional lifetime most actors rehearse longer than they play, spend more time traipsing from office to office in search of jobs than they rehearse and play combined.

I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.

i have no desire to spend my life dancing backward.

As Winston Churchill said, "If you're going through hell, keep going." I know from hard experience that can be the longest journey down the darkest road. And I have learned that sometime the shortest distance isnt' forward, but up.

Even if the water becomes hot water, it will quench the fire.

I love beautiful; always have. I never saw why I should hate what I wish I had. Love it harder. Work your way closer. Clasp your hands around it tighter. Till you find a way to make it yours.

I stayed because running seemed too strange and too complicated. All I knew was how to fall back, find a patch of solid ground, and then dig my heels in and fight to start over.

All's you can do is your best," he says. "Sometimes it doesn't work out the way you intend it to. You just gotta keep doing it anyway.

nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.

There's no nipping women's ideas. Cut them down one place, they grow up another. You wouldn't know where you'd be.

You don't have to have a lifetime of experience; you don't have to be a natural; you don't have to be a perfect expert. You can be like me, and learn this good stuff as you go along. You can make mistakes and have moments of dark despair and sometimes want to give up. And then you can keep on learning, keep on trying, keep on reaching, and you will find your moments of glad grace and catch a glimpse of those mountain peaks. I

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.' Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying.