Quotes About Persistence

Always keep your best work.

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

Dreams do not work unless you do.

When I rest, I rest and when I work, I work hard and sometimes for long hours. I always try to be rested when I work.

Don't worry about the chatter, do a good job, produce great work and do reporting that you're proud of.

Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That's why they call it rewriting.

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.

Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.

Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner

The only way you're going to get something to last in this world is to work at it

I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.

Humans are very good at making algorithms work eventually.

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

Do more than dream. Work.

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.

I believe that good things come to those who work.