Quotes About Persistence

The road can get rocky, but you have to find ways to work through it.

I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.

Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets.

Hey. What is it that famous person said? 'It'll all work out in the end, and if it doesn't, that means it's not the end yet'?

We don't want to get frustrated because it sticks in your mind too much. We have to work at it and see what we did wrong.

The pen isn't really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.

There's always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain set of obsessions which we each cycle through.

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

When I started out, I wanted to have everything solved by the time I was 30. That didn't happen. Instead, I realized that the journey is the destination, that the work.

I guess that's one of the reasons that you do it - work all the time - because it's sort of a high to find something that really works.

If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.

Either I'll never get rich from the show but remain intensely proud of the work and stand behind every second of it, or it catches on and I'll make my money down the road.

I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work.

I'll never violate my oath to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to work night and day for the rise of my people. I've been at this for darn near 60 years; I'm too old now to do something different.

So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.

I still want to do my work. I still want to do my livingness. And I have lived. I have been fulfilled. I recognized what I had, and I never sold it short. And I ain't through yet.

All the hard work means something. That's all you can really ask for, as an actor.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

I have always said that your work stays with you for a long time, and I try to get involved in projects where I truly believe if I had to do them again, I would the same way.