Quotes About Persistence

Remember this when you're struggling for a big idea. You're much better off scratching for a small one.

But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working

Do them anyway - you can never spend enough time on the basics.

There's nothing wrong with fear; the only mistake is to let it stop you in your tracks.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

When I can't build a cathedral, I build a bridge to get there.

Don't come home a failure.

Give me an example of a time that you felt you went above and beyond the call of duty at work" one time, because there you are just testing for basic prep. Ask it again. And again. And again, until the candidate can't come up with any more answers. And don't look away, break the tension with a chuckle, or give the candidate a chance to divert attention and halt the questioning process.

You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

There will be rough nights but joy really does come in the morning.

I ain't going to talk to you until I am blue in the face trying to make you change. I'm going to tell you what's on my mind and hope you get it and I'm going to move on. That's what we have to do sometimes--move on. Try to help others, extend your hand, and then help the next. If they don't want to accept it, keep moving on. Don't let them discourage you. Never stop doing what you're doing because of somebody else's unwillingness to learn.

The dream will outlive the dreamer so dream big.

It takes a while to build a dream

Try this affirmation: "I'm on the road to meet my dream.

so hard, if I didn't dream of better times, I wouldn't have made it.

to my faith, worked toward my dream, and then surrendered.

That [expletive] is lying to you!" he warned my mother. "He's a nickel slick and a dollar short." But my mother was insistent. She wore her father down until, finally, he gave his consent.

IN THIS ERA of instant gratification and gotta-have-it-now impatience, it's hard to imagine putting everything you have, and I mean everything—all your money, all your

energy, all your hopes—into a dream, then meeting the hard knocks of failure over and over again, falling down and getting up…having to push yourself up to rise and try again for seven long years.

Every year for five years I spent every cent I had on I Know I've Been Changed, putting it on in different cities and in different theaters. Every single show—every one—failed. The financial failure and the heartbreak tore at my faith. Yet something kept the dream alive in my mind and in my heart and so I kept going, kept hoping, until finally, in 1998, I'd

One day, after yet another failed running attempt, I confessed to a good friend how frustrated I was about my sorry running chops. "Tyler, you've got it all wrong," he said. "It's not about the speed or the distance. It's about the endurance." I rolled his words around my mind and remembered Ecclesiastes 9:11 (KJV):

When one door of opportunity slams shut in your face, you don't turn around and go home, boo. Oh, no. You just go through that side door, and if that's closed, go through the back door, the cellar door, the attic—just get in the damn house!

No matter how far a mind is displaced from those things which it seeks, it will return to them as it must.