Quotes About Persistence

Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.

Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you've achieved.

You should just go, go to work, work hard, be a perfectionist, be a workhorse. If you work 10 years straight, you'll be comfortable and set for life. That is a fact.

My mother always said to me, 'You're going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can't take no for an answer'.

I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.

Work hard! Just keep working hard until you can do something you want to do! We all progress at different speeds and in different ways, so be patient and keep working hard!

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.

If you work hard and be persistent, you will achieve whatever you want to do.

If I have one advantage, it's that I will try to work harder than the next guy.

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

Anything I learned was just work hard, just keep working and don't worry about the outside stuff. Whatever happens will happen.

Physical ability only goes so far. You have to work hard the rest of the way.

Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.

That's a hard question, because I started skating when I was three, so I don't really remember life before it, and I don't know what it is like not to work hard at something.

Remember your ancestors, dream of your descendants and work hard while you're living.

Best advice is this: Work hard. Nothing is given to you.

It's never bothered me to work hard. I've probably worked on some of the longest schedules in movie history.

I think for any director, male or female, it would be just to be prepared, work hard, and not give up! As my agent once told me, it's all about stamina before you ever end up on set!

That's the interesting thing about writing. You can start late, you can be ignorant of things, and yet, if you work hard and pay attention you can do a good job of it.

I want to work hard, and when good roles come along I don't want to pass them up.

My dad taught me at a very young age that I should work harder than everyone else: Be the first one in and the last one out.

If I'm nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it's playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.

It's tough to say, exactly, what things will look like in three to five years, but there's a lot of work to do in just moving along the path that we've already set out.