Quotes About Persistence

Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home, after a while I decided it was time to go home, let us put the cubes back in order. And it was at that moment that I came face to face with the Big Challenge: What is the way home?

I always wanted to be an actor. I always wanted to be John Wayne.

Sometimes I understand how Bruce Wayne feels. When you take down a terrorist or something, there's always six guys to take their place. Everyone is Hydra. But you still have to do it.

I've worked with Bette Davis, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda. Here's the thing they all have in common: They all, even in their 70s, worked a little harder than everyone else.

I got my B.F.A. at Wayne State. Moved to L.A. and got my M.F.A. from Cal Arts in acting and just worked hard.

You look at the best players in the game - Wayne Gretzky, Bobby Orr - they didn't sit on the couch and then one day join the NHL. They worked on their game. Their talent was perseverance, dedication. Those are talents to me; that's what gets you to the NHL.

At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

It's not interesting to achieve; the ways of achievement are interesting.

I always wanted to do good work, the best that I was able to, to really discover myself, getting better with each role, and find newer ways to do the same thing.

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

Everybody has adversity in their lives and we all have to find ways of overcoming them. You've got to soldier on, make the best of it, look for the positive in everything.

Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.

If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.

In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.

In every decision, there's two ways you can go. To quit, to stop, or to let it beat you. Or you can beat it.

What motivates me is not staying still. I want to be busy, and I think too many good actors are left by the wayside through no fault of their own, but because there aren't necessarily enough opportunities out there.

Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It's the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that's the real reason that the relationships continue.

I learned that life is a long and difficult road, but you have to keep going, or you'll fall by the wayside.

We cannot be always successful and would not face failures every time. We should bounce back like a ball every time.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

We all desire things that we believe we cannot have, and so my films reflect that again and again. The mystery must be solved, the goal attained.

We cannot change absolutely everything in one season.

As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.