Quotes About Persistence

We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck.

[Warren Beatty] will sometimes spend hours on a very small detail to make sure he gets it right. After the kind of work that he's made, he certainly doesn't have to be doing that.

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.

Certain people have wanted to put me behind bars for a long time now. That's part of my work. If I were afraid, I couldn't do what I do.

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.

Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the void with self-actualization.

Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.

Prayer is hard work. We may neglect it because we're too tired, too busy, or too distracted to put into prayer the effort required.

I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.

I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

I work constantly to be better at being rejected.

Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.

To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.

One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

They tried stoning me, my dear. It did not work.

My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.