Quotes About Persistence

If you have a dream. Believe it. Work on it. Have faith in your heart and feel it explode within you. Be sincere about your dream. Mean what you say and do what you dream.

Follow your passion. Help people along the way. Work very very hard and always come prepared.

Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.

No work begun shall ever pause for death.

It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.

Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.

It's believable because great things don't happen without hard work

Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

I will work on Invincible until I am made to quit.

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.

Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self.

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

I am not retiring until every American agrees with me, and there's some work still to be done on this.

And I think more than anything else, I know when I go to bed that no one's working harder doing what I'm doing, and I think, quite frankly, simply that hard work at some point was gonna pay off.

Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.

I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

Some people are much like blisters-they don't show up until the work is done.

In order to continue to do interesting work, you need to be...proceeding.

The hardest work begins in dry dock.

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.