Quotes About Persistence

If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

When you can't stop what you're doing long enough to improve it, you will never stop what you are doing.

Never stop believing in yourself; play with your qualities. You always have to keep making steps. Progress is everything. The big players, every season, they become a new player: they learn, and they learn. That's the key.

I'm not going to stop having problems.

There's a gazillion different business license fees. And just keeping up with all the regulations - it just doesn't stop.

If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.

I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

You can't let concerns stop you; they drive you and they motivate you.

I'm someone who likes to respond to a challenge. I never give up or stop trying, even if things were a little bit more difficult at the beginning.

People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

I've never stopped writing, never stopped recording.

I wanted to be an attorney. My mother would say I never stopped talking. I always had a lot of questions to ask, and I was never satisfied with the answer. A lot of things I wasn't satisfied by.

I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

I'm writing all the time, I never stopped writing.

I never stopped myself from doing difficult roles.

I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then, my goodness, I never stopped.

I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

I could never give up athletics. Running is what I will always do. Even if, maybe, the authorities could have stopped me from running in 2009, they could not have stopped me in the fields. I would have carried on with my running; it doesn't matter. When I run I feel free, my mind is free.

If I'd stopped dreaming, I don't think I'd be here; I'd be somewhere else.

So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.

I did school plays, and then, at the age of 18, I applied to drama school in London, and I got in. I've been very lucky that no one so far has stopped me from being able to live my dream - the industry or my parents.

I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying.

I have never stopped playing music.