Quotes About Persistence

A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

I didn't get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it work, I would play as long as I could walk.

If you don't find the time, if you don't do the work, you don't get the results.

Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.

Be boring. (It's the only way to get work done.)

Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work.

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

When you knock on the door of opportunity, do not be surprised that it is Work who will answer.

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.

You have to love what you do because it's really, really hard work to get to top and it's even harder to stay there.

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.

Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I've set out to do.

I think we are starting to get some information that will allow us to get to the bottom of this, and I hope we continue to work on this until we get to the bottom of it.

Real ability is the child of God-given talent and rock solid diligence. Nobody maintains ability without hard work. Nobody.

If the work is worthwhile, then whether we can complete it or not, it's worth making the attempt. That's why courage is important.

Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.

...A man is not required to run faster than he is able but it is a requirement to run.