Quotes About Persistence

I really believe that if you deserve something then one day you will get it.

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.

You know, one day you make putts and the next day you don't.

You have to take things one day at a time.

I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, one night at a time. I'm not usually up during the day.

I take my work one day at a time.

If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.

The very nature of acting is one minute you're up and the next you're down; one minute you're in favour and the next you're forgotten. You go away and you come back again.

One of the things I've observed since I was a kid, is that if you work on something long enough you'll find I, even if you're lost for a while you'll find it.

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm not any good at it.

I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there's one thing you can't say about me - that I didn't attack it.

I just know one thing that hard work is the key to success and I believe in this.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

Definitely, if you're just going into the game focused on one thing, then you'll definitely be better at that one thing.

Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.

I'm very wholehearted. I want to concentrate on one thing in my life at one time.

I'm 'One Time' for a reason.

Sometimes kids ask how I've been able to write so many books. The answer is simple: one word at a time. Which is another good lesson, I think. You don't have to do everything at once. You don't have to know how every story is going to end. You just have to take that next step, look for that next idea, write that next word.

I don't mind having a one-hit wonder as long as I have a career in show business, which has been fabulous.

I can't be a one-hit wonder - though, I don't think that is going to be the case.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

One can't allow oneself to be bullied into abandoning one's dream.