Quotes About Persistence

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

The only road to doing good shows, is doing bad shows.

Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

I think I have a really good work ethic.

Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.

It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

The more I heard that I couldn't make it, the more I was determined to do it. I never liked being told that I'm not good enough to do this or that.

Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.

The were good times, there were hard times, but there were never bad times

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.

Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.

Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

One key to success is demanding more than adequacy, never settling for good enough and always doing a little bit more.

As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.