Quotes About Persistence

So, I would write songs... I sort of loved it and hated it in the sense that I would be like, it's never good enough, and I didn't think it was that good, but I always kept striving to write better and better stuff.

I have to keep pushing and keep striving, and also keep being me on the field.

I keep striving to be perfect, it keeps you pushing and pushing and pushing.

Writing is rewriting; rewriting is writing - from the first crossed-out word in the first sentence to the last word inserted above a caret, that most helpful handwritten stroke.

You have to keep on learning all the time unless and until you become perfect in all the strokes.

Because when you're 10, 11, 12, 13, you see all these strokes and you want to copy them. And it's not easy to keep what you started with, if that makes sense.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

We got the strong hustle, the strong grind embedded in us since Day One.

Most brands started from a strong base and kept a strong belief.

Mentally strong people don't shy away from change - nor do they expect immediate results.

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

I've never let myself give up, because I believe in myself. I want to get stronger than I have ever been, and I will continue to tell myself that I can do it, no matter what the odds.

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.

I just want to write another record that's as good or better than the one I've already made. That's my main goal, to follow up stronger than before.

Serbia has shown enough patience, but it has also sent a clear and strong message that the law must be respected and that no one is stronger than the state.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

I have faced rejection in this business because of my appearance, but that has only made me stronger and more determined.

I can't jump the highest. I'm obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

You have to be willing to work 365 days a year and be absolutely obsessed with what you want to achieve and if you're willing to go that far then you're able to be the World's Strongest Man.

I'd get beat up a lot early on. I wasn't the strongest, fastest or most skilled guy there, but I had a lot of heart and kept showing up. I just started getting better and by the time I was 13 I was knocking older kids and amateurs out.

I think I wrote the first draft of 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in '79. No one wanted to buy it. Nobody. I felt very strongly about it, so I stayed with it and kept paying my assistant and everything. At a certain point, I was literally flat broke.

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well.

I strongly believe in the saying that hard work always pays off.