Quotes About Persistence

Any time you come out and bust your tail, good things are going to happen.

I'm just going to come in each year and work my tail off and try to be the best I can be.

I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.

Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.

If you have a dream, don't let anybody take it away, and always believe that the impossible is possible.

Ain't no point in stopping or slowing down. Ain't like no 'A'ight, I'm done with this, now take a break,' you just keep going.

It's a long journey to become successful, and you learn to grow with it. You grow with the small steps you take.

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Sometimes you climb the mountain, and you fall and fail. Maybe there is a different path that will take you up. Sometimes a different mountain.

You've got to have faith in what you're doing and not take no for an answer.

You have no idea how many doors closed on me and how many adults were either initially reluctant to take a chance working with me or who outright laughed at me behind my back.

You certainly know when you have an opportunity, and you want to take advantage of it. And it's certainly disappointing when you don't.

I can tell you that I'm getting open and I'm trying to take advantage of every opportunity that comes my way.

You have to take advantage of every opportunity that you get and go hard.

You just have to know how to put in the work, know how to be patient, how to take advantage of every opportunity that you get.

I've set up my goals, and I go after them, and if I do that each day, the rest will take care of itself.

The key is to keep playing hard and the rest will take care of itself.

It's long been my dream to have myself declared incompetent so I could just practice all day, and blog, and not have to take care of any normal life things.

The most important thing to me is how hard we go after the ball and take care of it.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength?

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.

I don't want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I'm completely confused. I'm like, 'Didn't you make that movie already?' I've been very fortunate, and I'm well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

I have always taken things slow, I never wanted to run through my musical journey, I wanted to enjoy every step and challenge.