Quotes About Persistence

I have an I.Q. of 100 plus a little bit. I have to work real hard to get things when I read.

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved.

The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only a few could have carried.

I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard.

Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.

Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.

If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.

Hope, like faith, is a principle of action. It motivates and inspires. We do not sit in our armchairs and hope for hope; we get up and go to work.

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on.

Hope for the best and work for it.

Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work.

The work is the most important thing.

Nobody really wants to work anymore. Nobody has the dedication to say, "It's going to take me ten years to get through this thing."

Sometimes I think there are devils at work in the kitchen - recipes that are always perfect sometimes come out less than perfect and I can't figure out why.

Do the work you are most proud of

I grew up in San Diego, so it wasn't hard to move to L.A. to get into show business, but I did the standard thing of just moving without much money and just seeing if I could make it work.

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

And, I wouldn't consider myself to be a natural pilot; I've had to work at it.