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Quotes About Persistence

It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.
~ J. T. Walsh
Coming from a film family didn't help me much and I had to struggle a lot.
~ Anu Malik
I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away.
~ Julian Bond
As soon as you come to Mumbai, get a job, then start your struggle. That's what I did.
~ Kumar Sanu
Everything's been a struggle for me.
~ Juliana Hatfield
Don't leave your job without getting an acting offer. Very few people in the industry are lucky to get a film without much struggle and be successful.
~ Parineeti Chopra
All in all this is a difficult political struggle which will go on for years, in which our people won't die anymore; I'm not sure how much we will be able to win, but I'm certain that we won't loose anything that we have now.
~ Alija Izetbegovic
If you look at anyone's career, there are times when you have hard times. Even the best players have to struggle through things.
~ Michael Carrick
After my debut, I had to struggle for seven years to establish myself in the industry.
~ Vivek
Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
~ Young Buck
I think there's only one interesting story... and that's struggle.
~ Thomas McGuane
I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college.
~ Moira Kelly
There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here.
~ Arto Lindsay
It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more.
~ Lawrence Kasdan
I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.
~ Holly Near
All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
~ Vincent D'Onofrio
I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.
~ Jack White
It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you don't find out you're an artist because you do something really well.
~ Junot Diaz
I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.
~ Scott Caan
Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.
~ Antony Sher
I've struggled a lot for what I have today.
~ Raj Kapoor
I really struggled with doing nine-to-five and just wanted to do something where it felt like I was in charge and I was doing something creative. I imagine if the first gig had gone badly I'd never have done it again. I imagine there's hundreds of people who could have been really great comedians and just had a bad first gig.
~ Josh Widdicombe
All the time I had my success, I didn't know what I was doing. I struggled and struggled and hacked things out without any insight as to why.
~ Leon Russell
I love acting, so I don't feel that I have ever struggled.
~ Kubra Sait