Quotes About Persistence

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

Believe, really believe, you can move a mountain, and you can. Not many people believe that they can move mountains. So, as a result, not many people do.

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

I climb mountains.

I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.

When I was a kid, I always dreamed about climbing mountains. I read every book about it. I formulated this plan to accomplish it.

If you're in business and you make a sales call and that lead doesn't buy from you, you don't sit there all day mourning the loss of that lead. You go out there and make 10 more sales calls!

As long as my mouth, hands, and brain still work, I'll be out there doing it. I'm going to keep going 'til I'm not there anymore. This is what's keeping me alive and feeling young and inspired.

I have started my career with roles where all I needed to mouth was 1 line. That's how I began on TV.

Drummers are like sharks. They have to move all the time or they die.

If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.

As you move through life, it's not going to be a bright, sunshiny day every day.

Just do what you do. Sometimes you do well, and sometimes you do wrong, but you have to just be able to deal with yourself and move forward.

Everyone's had a setback, but it's how you move forward and what you do with your future, that's what matters.

You gotta understand, there weren't a whole lot of roles for Hispanics in the Eighties, so comedy was really the way I could really feed myself and eventually feed my family. I was an actor who learned to be a comic, and it's cool to come back and get back into acting - move forward in the direction I started out to do in the beginning.

The image of me as someone who likes or can deal with a fight is wrong. Some people enjoy competition and dustups, and I wish I did, but I don't. But once you have started down a path, then I think you have to move forward. You can't give up.

I just have to move forward and keep working on my game and getting better.

I need to show my son that when things get hard and rough - not if, when - you have to keep going; you have to move forward.

There are a number of people who are anxious to leave #metoo behind and move on, but I don't think people realize how short of a time we have been discussing this issue compared to how long this has been an issue.

Even if I do miss a shot, I'm going to be comfortable to get back up there and shoot the same shot again. Make or miss, I'm not going to be frustrated but move on to the next play.

I look at what's in front of me. I concentrate on that and then hopefully move on.

It's gotta feel natural. I'm always into that, and after awhile, if I am working on a song too long and trying to make something out of it that it's not... it's best just to stop and move on.

You give everything; sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but you always have to move on quickly.

If you fail doing one thing, then learn the lesson and move on and find something else.