Quotes About Persistence

Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?

Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer

Like so many creative men of his school he was hounded by an incessant restlessness.

Too many writers start with a good idea and carry it through the first chapters, then fall apart because they had no idea where the top of the mountain was in the first place.

No juice to be hopeless, no heart to be sad. I tried in the wind, tried in the sand.

Success is survival.

Baby, I've been waiting, I've been waiting night and day I didn't see the time, I waited half my life away

I'm stubborn as those garbage bags That time cannot decay

Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure.

Now all notions of the good life were compressed into a single word: survival.

Jesus said, ''Go ye!'' but He also said, ''Tarry until!'' Let any man shut himself up for a week with only bread and water, with no books except the Bible, with no visitor except the Holy Ghost, and I guarantee, my preacher brethren, that that man will either break up or break through and out. After that, like Paul, he will be known in hell!

Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails. —E. M. BOUNDS

At some point we have to give up and say that's just the way it is. Or, not give up and push on.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

Work on. " Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish.

There are always such people who begin everything but never finish, and I am such a one.

Never let the odds keep you from pursuing What you know in your heart you were meant to do.

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly. . . . Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.