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Quotes About Persistence

I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.
~ Mary J. Blige
Reality is, you have to work harder the older you get.
~ Matt Hasselbeck
I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.
~ Miranda Otto
I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.
~ Noel Clarke
I'm kind of the long-hauler type of person. I also have a strong work ethic and gratitude for people that I work with.
~ Patricia Arquette
The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard.
~ Paul Wellstone
When I first moved to New York I had been trying to work on anything and everything I could. From extra work and commercials to short and student films so I could learn in front of a camera.
~ Pawel Szajda
Dream big - dream very big. Work hard - work very hard. And after you've done all you can, you stand, wait and fully surrender.
~ Oprah Winfrey
I feel like I'm waiting on something that isn't going to happen Don't complain; just work harder.
~ Randy Pausch
I have to work hard and organize myself so that I'm present and not a slacker.
~ Regina Spektor
You can never give up-athletics taught me that. You must work hard, prepare, learn from your losses and continue to fight until the very end.
~ Roger Staubach
It's important to work hard - there's no short cut around that.
~ Sachin Tendulkar
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.
~ Suzy Welch
If you work hard, good things will happen. I will never be in a situation where if I fail I can look back and say, 'If I'd only worked harder.'
~ Travis Hafner
I guess my mantra is you have to work really hard if you want something. You have to be committed to hard work and persistence even when it gets tough.
~ Vanessa Amorosi
Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling
~ Voltaire
I want to go out there and do the best work I can.
~ Will Friedle
I will keep working hard!
~ Yani Tseng
I tell people to have a relationship with their work every day, even if it means you just move a comma.
~ Achy Obejas
When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
~ Adam Ant
Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.
~ Adele Logan Alexander
Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time. Some artists never see their work in front of an audience, so for them 15 years is a blink of an eye. I am nothing but grateful.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.
~ Akio Morita
"The harder you work, the luckier you get" is true in all things.
~ Al Murray