Quotes About Persistence

Keep a thing seven years and it's bound to come in handy.

Life lesson from the nursery: Broken crayons can still color.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Put on your dream hat and dance all the way to success!

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

[Y]ou can do it, even if you can't. Just keep can'ting until eventually you can.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on!

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.

Effort is like toothpaste: you can usually squeeze out just a little bit more.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

Life is like riding a bicycle; we can keep from falling if we keep moving. Only a few trick-riders can stand still and not tumble.

Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true.

Broken tools can be replaced. You can't.

I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they're impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams.

Faith can move mountains.

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way and it surely has not, she adjusted her sails.

You need to have a can-do attitude. There is always a way.

I think I'm a really hard worker, and I feel like my attitude is to just enjoy the process of being creative and developing and 'just throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.'

I will not get very far with this attitude.

People who retain their childish attitudes will rarely be able to hold on to the success they may achieve through their talent.

This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this – nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'.

"I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you."