Quotes About Persistence

Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible.

As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait.

No matter how many things women suffer, nothing can take away their appetite for trouble.

You shall gain but you shall pay with sweat, blood, and vomit, Comrade.

But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

I change by not changing at all.

Nace el ave, y con las galas que le dan belleza suma, apenas es flor de pluma, o ramillete con alas, cuando las etéreas salas corta con velocidad, negándose a la piedad del nido que dejan en calma; ¿y teniendo yo más alma, tengo menos libertad?

Es así. El ser humano se acostumbra a todo. Si todos los días le dan una cucharada de mierda, primero hace arqueadas, después él mismo pide ansiosamente su cucharada de mierda y hace trampas para comer dos cucharadas y no una sola.

Entendí que prefería tocar bien el ukelele que seguir tocando mal la guitarra, y eso fue como una nueva filosofía personal. Si no podés con la vida, probá con la vidita.

Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that's where my responsibility ends. But I just don't wait for ideas. I look for them. Constantly. And if I don't use the ideas that I find, they're going to quit showing up.

It made a good daydream, but I've learned that if you want dreams to come true, you have to take action.

Seeing persistence as the key to success is also democratic. If hanging in there is what's required, then all the other characteristics and advantages one person might have over another—education, class, privilege—are taken off the table.

The ability to quit fully is as valuable a tool to living well as is persistence.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

We singe but never burn.

Prayer is the hardest thing. And no one congratulates you for doing it because no one knows you're doing it, and if things turn out well they likely won't thank God in any case. But I have a feeling that the hardest thing is what we all better be doing now, and that it's not only the best answer but the only one.

The only way to learn to write is to write.

Everything is practice.

I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.

I have no idea where I am going, she thought, but I have begun.

I can do anything I must, and I must do this.

All the things that make life worth living take work.

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. Confucius