Quotes About Persistence

If you missed the mouse today, you'll get it tomorrow. You never leave who you are. If you are a writer when writing, you are also a writer when you are cooking, sleeping, walking. And if you are a mother, a painter, a horse, a giraffe, or a carpenter, you will bring that into your writing, too.

Jump in, no excuses. Exert the force of your life. Persevere under all circumstances.

Trust what you love, continue to do it and it will take you where you need to go.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it

As many as twenty men who were tortured by Burge are still in prison. Their fight for freedom continues.

When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.

Put bluntly, it doesn't matter how much "failure" you've experienced if you decide to respond to it constructively. And sometimes maybe "responding to it constructively" means you ignore it altogether.

It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of Boswell.

We must take the long view—every defeat is a victory in a war of attrition.

Whenever I meet in Laplace with the words 'Thus it plainly appears', I am sure that hours and perhaps days, of hard study will alone enable me to discover how it plainly appears.

Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.

Do anything, save to lie down and die!

Faint heart never won fair lady," he wrote; "neither did it ever pursue and overtake an Indian village.

That's why I won't give up! I'll continue to move forward because I believe!

No. Never. I have to try my best or I'll become worse and worse. Even if I can't make up with them. Even if they all ignore me. I still have to try my best.

It would have been nice if we could have lived our lives without taking any wrong turns. But such a thing isn't possible. We still stumble...we lose our way, we make mistakes and yet little by little, one step at a time we keep on walking forward. With our own two feet... even if we get beaten and bruised along the way we'll eventually reach something. We'll eventually reach someone. Until then we'll keep wishing. So... let's start walking.

I ain't gonna give up on myself. I'm done with that.

Just as all good things, happy things, fun things must come to an end...scary and sad things will also come to an end. Always. Even if you can't believe it when it happens, please...please don't give up. Live. I want you to live. You might make mistakes or lose your way...but please...please live. Don't ever stop moving forward. Please...that's all I ask. Don't give up. Even if...I'm no longer at your side.

It would have been nice if we could have lived our lives without taking any wrong turns. But such a thing isn't possible. We fall, we stumble...we lose our way, we make mistakes. And yet, little by little...one step at a time...we keep on walking forward with our own two feet. Even if we get beaten and bruised along the way, we'll eventually reach something. We'll eventually reach someone. Until then, we'll keep wishing. So...let's start walking.

I can't give up. Something...there must be something I can do. I want to believe that. I have to believe that.

Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.