Quotes About Persistence

The truth is, I almost always did accomplish what I said I would - in the face of overwhelming obstacles!

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful ' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

Typing on an actual typewriter on paper is only a softer version of chiseling words into stone.

You know, I think anybody who has a dream to do something, that dream will keep you warm in the coldest of nights. You know what I mean? When you're like most lonely... that dream needs to be nurtured and cultivated so, even if you never speak to another person again in your life, that thing, that dream has to keep you company. So I would pour everything into that dream.

How much longer?"he asked, trying to be casual. "For ever, if you keep interrupting.

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

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Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

That's the problem with running away, said the little voice. No matter where you go, you have to take yourself with you; and if yourself is constitutionally incapable of leaving well enough alone and not worrying if the rest of the world is weirder than ferret ragout, where the hell is the point?

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

How many no's am I willing to accept on my way to success?

The number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed and the number of times I succeed is in direct porption to the number of times I can fail and keep trying.

The number of times I succeed is directly proportional to the number of times I can fail, and keep trying !

Like a muscle, your creative abilities will grow and strengthen with practice.

Their ultimate "strokes of genius" don't come about because they succeed more often than other people—they just do more, period.

relentless practice creates a database of experience that you can draw upon to make more enlightened choices.

In learning to Juggle, the angst comes from failure - from having the ball fall to the floor. So with step one, numb aspiring jugglers to that. Having the ball fall to the floor becomes more normal than the ball not falling to the floor.

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.