Quotes About Persistence

every obstacle should at first be put in the way of the aspiring artist, as it is only those you cannot discourage who are worth encouraging.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

There are many challenges, there are many obstacles let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

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

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

That's right; put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see there you'll land.

never give up, for that is just the time and place that the tide will turn

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Don't run away from it, just because it's difficult.

Because if you love someone, you have to be brave and tell them. Don't let them go. And if you say no I'm going to spend the rest of my life trying to convince you I'm right. I promise. I won't leave you alone. Because it's not about who's whats or wheres or anything. We should be together. The other stuff doesn't matter. That's all.

I looked out at the children in the playground below my window: They were running around yelling in the sunshine, and I reflected on how blokes always get the women they want by chasing them until they give in. I'm always amazed that so many men—usually the ugly ones—are convinced they could pull Claudia Schiffer if they were given the chance, while someone gorgeous ... is always convinced blokes don't fancy her. It rarely happens the other way round.

Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.'" (Ecclesiastes 9:10)

There's little point in killing an idea by saying it might fail. Any idea might fail. If you're doing anything worthwhile at all, you'll suffer a dozen failures. Start failing so you can start succeeding

There's no final resting place — short of death — where you can stop having to earn what you want.

The negative side of marriage remains long after the positive goals have been discarded.

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive.

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

If you love something/Set it free/If it loves you/It will come back to you/ If it doesn't--hunt it down and kill it.

Survival is truimph enough.

the prayer of dominant desire always tends to attain its object.

Financial rewards follow accomplishment; they don't precede it.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.