Quotes About Persistence

That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

You may lose again and again... and again because you always think of success, but you can have success because you never think of it but concentrating your right work only.

Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.

The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

Ultimately, if you are doing great work, the money will come.

For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work.

That's the most difficult issue for me - to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject.

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.

Hard work always wins in the end.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

Too many bands practice in their garage, play a couple of shows locally, and expect opportunities to appear from the sky. Bands have to push, work, grind, and struggle to make it happen on their own.

One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.

Whatever God gave you, you have to work that to your best ability - especially out here in Hollywood, the land of beautiful people.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work

It only 'doesn't work out' if you quit. Never, ever quit!

My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.

Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.