Quotes About Persistence

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.

De object wuz tuh git dere. So Ah got up on de high stool lak she told me, but Pheoby, Ah done nearly languished tuh death up dere.

But it was night, it stayed night.

Through this publication, Barracoon extends our knowledge of and understanding about the experiences of Africans prior to their disembarkation into the Americas. Like a relic pulled up from the bottom of the ocean floor, Barracoon speaks to us of survival and persistence. It recalls the disremembered and gives an account for the unaccounted. As an expression of the feelings and attitudes of one who survived the Middle Passage, it is rare in the annals of history.

But, don't care how firm your determination is, you can't keep turning round in one place like a horse grinding sugar cane.

He's got uh throne in de seat of his pants.

the nobility of a soul that has suffered to the point almost of erasure, and still it struggles to be whole, present, giving.

Life, inexhaustible, goes on. And we do too. Carrying our wounds and our medicines as we go.

Art is never finished. It is only abandoned.

Dance is my passion and love, and I am not abandoning it for anything.

The thing is, it's really hard to be the No. 1 absolute best in the world at something, no matter what you're doing.

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.

You never accomplish everything you want to accomplish.

I really do think that is why this country is so great: If you want to accomplish something, then you must do it.

I made $225.81 a week as an accountant, and I went to $400 a week as a stand-up. I was up to $800 a week when I went out to L.A. In L.A., I made $25.

I'm accustomed to being harassed.

If you believe, you can achieve, innit.

If you work at it, you can achieve it.

The war against British rule must continue until freedom is achieved.

The day I think I've achieved everything will be the day I fail. There is no end to learning, and I want to continue being a student.

Whatever I have achieved in the industry is something I consider to be amazing.