Quotes About Persistence

now there is only the river that was always on its own way

As long as I try, there's always a chance of getting up. It's not the end until you give up.

If you don't give up, you still have a chance.

We just don't give in. If you can bend and not break, you always got a chance.

Never ever give up, even, and especially, when there is no chance of winning.

If you can't quit no matter how hard you try, then you have a chance to succeed.

Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part.

I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.

Give it up? Not likely. Besides, what else would I do? I totally should have gone to Hogwart's when I had the chance.

You have no chance at getting a rebound unless you make it.

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.

Keep your eye on the main chance and don't stop to kick every barking dog.

A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.

If we go out there and do our best every game, then I will take my chances that the results will be more good than bad.

I expected him to say, 'Hang in there' or something like that. It took me an hour to talk him into giving me another chance!

If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting.

I feel lucky to be doing TV right now because I get another chance every day.

O lovely chance, what can I doTo give my gratefulness to you?You rise between myself and meWith a wise persistency;I would have broken body and soul,But by your grace, still I am whole.

If there is a one-in-a-million chance that you will "make it, " then SOMEBODY has to be that ONE. It may as well be YOU! So FIGHT, WARRIOR!

If you do not expect it you will not find the unexpected for it is hard to find and difficult.

I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'

If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today.

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.