Quotes About Persistence

Funny. You talk of life as if it were a train you have to catch up with. How long have you been trying, three days? And not got a glimpse of it yet, in spite of caviar and champagne?

Your methods are like slow release fertilizer; over time they produce a bountiful harvest.

Eighty percent of American forces contracted dysentery in another siege, but they kept fighting. Some had to go into combat with the backsides of their pants cut away.

For so many people, the stronger the evidence of failed strategies, the deeper they cling to their ways.

I always have a picture in my head of what I want. I will literally do anything to make it happen. I will kill myself; I will run myself into the ground to make it happen how I want it to happen.

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.

I say seduce her, seduce her tonight. Break the door down if you have to. Tell her all those things you said to me about her. You will love her more tomorrow than today and how you want to die with her hand in yours–which is an excellent line, by the way, that I fully intend to borrow when the time comes.

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

There is always a solution to any challenging situation.

You do not necessarily have to get before you do but when you do, you shall get

Keep chasing your dreams before guilt of doing nothing touches your back

Persistence Pays...Period.

It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

They say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true, and I've seen him so many times.

I will never give up. I am in my 14th year of a 10-day beauty plan.

If you have done something once, you can do it again or you can do it better. The beauty is the pursuit of the limit, not the limit itself. At least that's what I hope people realize.

All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.

I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.

Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

If you want to do something then be the best.

It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.