Quotes About Persistence

I know that most of the time I have to work overtime to do everything that I want to.

I believe it doesn't really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth.

Do your homework all of your life.

Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.

I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.

I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.

You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

I wanted to be in The Emerald Forest. I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!

There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.

Nothing is going to happen unless you work with your life's blood.

The longest lives are short; our work lasts longer.

In the democratic way of life it is not the best things in life are free, but rather the best things in life are worth working for!

When you get hard work you get success, and we put a lot of years into it.

If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'

Mind control won't work on those who are really hardheaded. You know… Creatures like you.

The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.

You can't deny somebody that's a hard worker. You can't deny somebody that just digs down as deep as they can.

I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.