Quotes About Persistence

Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard.

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost.

I try to improve every day so that things go well. You must keep training strongly every day.

I'm the type of person that if I feel strongly about something and if I really want to do something, I'm just gonna do it. And if it works out, amazing, and it's like 'I told you so,' but if it doesn't work out, that's fine.

A lot of executives simply told me that my sound was dated and wouldn't work, kind of telling me essentially to go away, that my music would never work in that 'bro-country' world. It broke my heart at times, but I also believed strongly in the music.

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

I started seriously applying myself to writing fiction immediately after I finished graduate school. By 'seriously,' I mean that, instead of noodling along on a story, finishing it or not as the mood struck me, I set out to complete what I started, to polish it to the best of my ability, and to send out the finished story.

I never want to lose. I hate to lose... But Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times. You can't hit the home run every time you come up to bat.

If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.

Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as it has, although still not clever enough to open the black box of enzyme structure.

The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort.

Sometimes it takes us a long time to build up songs, and we really work the structures over and over and build in lots of noisy parts.

My life is a struggle.

I'm going to make my own heaven. I'm going to struggle for it. I'm going to fight to earn everything I dream about.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.

'Growing Stronger' emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up.

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.

It's a long struggle when you're starting over.