Quotes About Persistence

There is NO satisfaction out of instant gratification.

Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

Craftsmanship isnt like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until its empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

Go after your dreams. Never give up!

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it; nor be much concerned when he misses it.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

I can tell you at any rate how to get what you want. You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eye wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal--the truest thing in Scripture is about Lot's wife.

The passage from the realm of morals into the realm of religion is but a step; for the energy that we have found so persistent in the soul of man, urging him to purity, and service, and perfect love, is the same energy which, outside and above the soul of man, we name God.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.

Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn't become a bird overnight.

If at 1st you don't succeed, stretch out on your La-Z-Boy with a six-pack and a porn flick. Y' still won't succeed, but you sure as hell won't give a shift.

Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation'll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair.

If I want to catch the damn worm I get outta bed.

Excrement happens.

In the movie business, the ones we call Lucky are usually those idiots who are just too damn stubborn to take no for an answer. Come to think of it, the movie business is kind of like life.

If you can\'t do what you want, do what you can.

It just happens to be very important to me to win with the hand I was dealt.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement.

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.