Quotes About Persistence

I'd like to believe that I attract a certain kind of work which has substance because I work very hard towards it.

Anyone, if he has a will and basic knowledge, can create something substantial.

Rehabbing any significant injury is a substantial challenge independently; braving the process twice makes for even longer odds.

There is no substitute for hard work. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out.

It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from - there's no substitute for hard work.

It's complicated, but it's part of life - play, be a substitute, wait for your time.

Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.

There are a lot of subtle things that are very, very important in wrestling, and to pick those up just takes time and experience. The only way that I really feel is best to do that is to go on the road. I learned every day by showing up early and leaving late.

I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well.

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.

This game is a game of failure, and you're going to fail a heck of a lot more than you succeed in it.

One thing we see a lot is this - the idea kids have now that they don't have to go to college. They don't have to get a real job. They feel they can become 'Internet famous' by taking selfies. They think they can become a star through social media. We see that a lot. You can succeed. But it takes time and persistence.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.

Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed.

'They' are the people that don't believe in you, that say that you won't succeed. We stay away from 'They.'