Quotes About Persistence

Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith.

You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually.

I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

When you have a true ambition for something, you will not give up hope. Giving up hope is a sign that you are lacking ambition to achieve that goal!

While the heart beats, hope lingers.

I was 12 when I started and 34 before I achieved my dream, that should give people hope.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.

Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.

We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.

Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.

Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path.

At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.

Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.

I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.

I'm from Oregon. This is a town of no. I say no to a lot of things, and I get told no for a lot of things. Sometimes there's a yes, and you hope you see something in it.

If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through.

The important things are to train hard, and not give up hope.

Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

There is no hope without endeavor.