Quotes About Persistence

Really, you don't lose until you stop trying.

Nothing is over until you quit.

When I was very little, I insisted on getting my own pair of heels. And no, the screaming and tears didn't help me get them until I was much older!

I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.

If you do not try, you will never succeed. So try and try until you do.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb.

The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors.

Around 20. I'd been trying to transition from the streets to the music business, but I would make demos and then quit for six months. And I started to realize that I couldn't be successful until I let the street life go.

I will keep painting until I die.

Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

I want to keep grabbing, keep reaching, keep crawling, keep grinding and excelling until I can go no higher.

I've inherited a kind of... willfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.

I kind of learned that it's never over until it's over in tennis.

I was loving being the champion, and I wasn't listening to my body. I almost felt like I was untouchable in a way - that I could just keep going and everything would be OK.

I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey. I suppose this has to do with my need to leave no stone unturned, and sometimes to even dig deeper into the mine.

I will leave no stone unturned as far as hard work is concerned.

When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.

Everything I write goes through a lot of drafts. A hundred rewrites is not unusual for me to go through - the last fifty maybe just going back and forth on a single line or word selection.