Quotes About Persistence

It's an extraordinary thing—every time I see you, you appear to be recovering from some debauch. Don't you ever stop drinking? How about when you are asleep?

Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

Finally, never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." —Samuel Beckett

Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.

We see ourselves in every episode; we realize that it's possible to keep going and never give up. We feel devotion toward the lineage of people who have worked so hard to make it easier for us.

The waves just keep coming and knocking you down, but you stand up again and with some sense of rousing yourself, standing up.

So have a good journey home, and always remember—never give up!

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

We must reinforce argument with results.

It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

Of those who start TaeKwonDo training, only about 5% stick with it until they achieve the Black Belt Rank. Then perhaps 80% of those who earn a Black stop there.

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.

Keep doing what you like to do. That's all it is.

Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.