Quotes About Persistence

What I've learned is, there's not just one way to achieve a goal. There can be obstacles along the way and it's how you learn from that that will really make you a success.

Every time you try to do something different, you have to expect obstacles.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

Football was the best route to obtain my independence.

Most innovative things are not obvious to other people at the time. You have to believe in yourself. If you've got a good idea, follow it even though others tell you it's not.

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

This game is obviously about failure. You're going to fail most of the time. It's how you handle it.

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art... briefly.

Occasionally, as an actor, you're not... Sometimes, at least for me, I'm not fully in the groove until the second or third take, in which I would not want to just stop. If it's a scene that takes a lot of work and time, sometimes the scene gets better with time, and sometimes it gets exhausted. I think it just depends on the scene.

I've come second twice and I've played golf capable of winning the Masters on both of those occasions. I wasn't really back-dooring my way into a second place, I was right there playing great golf against guys playing their best golf.

Dreaming is a lifetime occupation.

He does see Himself as the Divine Artist. Of course, He is also a blunderer—so many of His creations are botched. A good many are disasters which He then proceeds to plow back into the food chain. That is His only means of keeping His multitudinous, mediocre, and often meaningless spawnings from choking the existence of the rest. Yet, I will admit, He is dogged. He is still looking to improve His previous creations.

zabitiy, which means somebody beats you, beats you, beats you, until you are beaten down.

Try feeding a five-day hunger with some OJ that tastes like a cup of freezer burn, and nothing to wash it down but a bunch of words you can't get out of your head.

when the old fears, hates, and worries that have haunted you for so long try to edge back in, they will in effect find a sign on the door of your mind reading "occupied.

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-14)

Try, really try. Think, really think. Believe, really believe.

that verse many times, but it never had any effect