Quotes About Persistence

You achieve what you believe in, look for, and work for.

Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple.

Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.

I just have to keep working hard.

Never say never. At least with working out I'm proving you don't need to. If I have three chins at 75 I'm not saying I wouldn't get rid of them, but who knows. Generally, I'd leave it alone.

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

I figured that I wasn't as smart or talented as the other kids around, so I just had to work twice as hard. Surprisingly, results showed quickly. I was hooked!

I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.

Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.

I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done!

When you have a great idea, and don't rush it, things can work itself out.

I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.

Some people just have a natural gift and some people really have to work at it and I'm more of the second kind. I always had to grind it out, where from him it just flowed.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.

I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going.

We are going to continue having these meetings, everyday, until I find out why no work is getting done.

Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman.

Do you give up?" Shezmu bellowed. "No!" I yelled. "No, we don't give up. We will name you. Just . . . Gosh, you're quite well muscled, arn't you? Do you work out?

Prayer and hard work are a pretty good one-two punch to get things done.

I work every single day, even on Sundays.

Never hope for it more than you work for it.

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.