Quotes About Persistence

Sometimes one just had to forge on and let the chips fall where they may. After all, we were the ones in the trenches, investing our will, hearts, sweat, and money while the critics spent nothing but words.

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny as he's ever been, and he's still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, I'll still be able to work.

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

The first step toward success will be the biggest one.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goal clearly in sight.

I love you, Jade. I have for a long time, and I'm sure not going to stop now." She

Would you like to dance?" She arched a delicate brow. "With you?" He reached for his drink. "I'll take that as a no." "Feel free to ask someone else, Murphy." He wasn't leaving her now, even if he wanted to dance with someone else—and he didn't.

Maybe he should go after her. Maybe he hadn't tried hard enough. Maybe she was missing him as much as he missed her. Finding her would be a challenge, but that had never stopped him before. Surely she'd left a forwarding address with the post office. But no. That's what her psycho, controlling late husband would have done: hunt her down. She needed to be free to make her own choice. And she had.

nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. "Nothing any good isn't hard.

for Columbia University.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.