Quotes About Persistence

I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

Storms without rain. Winds without water. She woke, and when she sat up, the dust fountained off her and the voice that accompanied her once again stirred, once again whispered, "Get up. Keep walking. Don't stop.

I speak Japanese the way a bear dances. It's not that the bear dances well that impresses people, it's the fact the bear dances at all.)

The adults in the room have to be skilled and literate by those 21st-century standards the NCTE is touting. And they have to exhibit the dispositions that will sustain their learning: persistence, empathy, passion, sharing, collaboration, creativity, and curiosity.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Plans get you into things but you've got to work your way out.

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in ... the edit." [ Ten rules for writing fiction (part two) , The Guardian, 20 February 2010]

It is better to write a bad first draft than no first draft at all.

There's nothing you've ever been successful at that you didn't work on every day.

You'll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

When you create art, the world has to wait.

If youth did not matter so much to itself it would never have the heart to go on

Waarom huilen? Beter nooit huilen. Er is maar één keus: het loodje leggen of volhouden. Als je eenmaal hebt besloten vol te houden, huil dan niet. Nooit opgeven, nooit en nooit en nooit. Het is trouwens de vraag of je dit kan beslissen. Waarschijnlijk is het leven een brok lijm, waarin je bijt en waaruit je je tanden nooit meer los kan trekken.

Ik heb tot dusver ondervonden dat op deze tocht niets voortdurend erger wordt dan het al is. Na klimmen volgt afdalen, regen houdt ook wel weer eens op, moeras wordt opgevolgd door droog terrein en zelfs de stenen waarop ik mijn enkels verzwik, zijn soms over lange afstanden afwezig. Kortom: net als altijd in het leven, een soort specifiek gemiddelde van ellende.

Resolution is almost omnipotent. Those little words "try" and "begin" are sometimes great in their results. "I can't" never accomplished anything. "I will try" has achieved wonders.

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain -- he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem -- he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills

Better limp all the way to heaven than not get there at all.

Many, on hearing Ebert's story, would use the word unlucky to describe him, but a much more fitting word would be unvanquished. During the last decade of his life, he experienced enough setbacks for several lifetimes and yet was not embittered by his fate. It was a triumph of the human spirit.

Even though I'd like to avoid the circumstance or situation, I will not. Avoidance behavior will only increase my anxiety. I will go ahead, experience the unpleasant feelings, and I'll get through it.

Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.