Quotes About Persistence

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

Too late. It was all too late. But she went on, determined as ever and always trying to catch up.

Still, for all that everybody, while not happy, is not unhappy about it. And so they go on.

3 June. The air is full of birdsong now in June as it never is in July or August perhaps because it's too hot or because the birds have built their nests, raised their young and gone. Now there is trilling, chinking and chirruping, a dialogue of persistence and variety that goes on far into the night.

Kyetäkseen kirjoittamaan ihmisen on oltava sitkeä.

Completion is an attitude, not an event.

If you keep asking, eventually someone will say yes

Seekers keep seeking, and finders keep finding.

There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate

There was no reply. That in itself was encouraging. They trudged on, Luke stealing admiring glances at her when she wasn't looking.

But patience had to be learned alone.

He who earnestly and persistently seeks, shall find! To him who knocks hard, the door will be opened.

A recovery old-timer had told me: "Time takes time. Don't be in any rush to get this thing. Let it filter in slow. What's the hurry?

Rejections are thin 'cause they really have nothing to say other than, Sorry, dude, you're screwed. acceptances are thick 'cause they have lots of stuff to say like, Welcome, dude, you're not screwed, we want you.

In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.

There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses, right?

Labour at your work until people cannot imagine what you have designed existing any other way.

An intractable problem can only be resolved by stepping beyond conventional solutions

sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.

Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality.

I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.