Quotes About Persistence

Do nothing and hope the enemy fades away.

You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.

We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

He has been positively growing tusks trying to create a breed of human insect which will continue to live on this accursed planet. Everyone needs a goal.

Nothing is lost forever. Trying keeps the hope alive.

We ought never to lose hope. God overwhelms us with his grace, if we keep asking.

Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.

Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of.

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.

I think the endeavor is to just make your film and then hope it travels as much as it can.

A scrip on my back, and a staff in my hand, I march on in haste through an enemy's land; The road may be rough, but it cannot be long; And I'll smooth it with hope, and I'll cheer it with song.

One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.