Quotes About Persistence

I got used to being pushed down, getting my eye split open and guys talking trash.You have to learn to live with it and adapt to it. That's what I did.

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway.

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!

Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.

He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.

I want to see your tailpipe fading off into the sunset." Good luck, I thought. My tailpipe was somewhere on Route 1, along with my muffler.

Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

When you work seven days a week fourteen hours a day you get lucky.

Everyone knows the principles of Beautiful life but, only few of them have opportunities to follow them.

Care and diligence bring luck.

I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius but it really was a lucky break.

Luck is what you have left over after you give ioo percent.

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

There's only one thing that's impossible to beat... a man that doesn't give up.

A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.

A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.

A brave man, a real fighter is not measured by how many times he falls, but how many times he stands up.

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.