Quotes About Persistence

You don't get many periods in your life when it all goes your way.

One of the main reasons I started writing these one-man shows was that this really evil casting director once said to me, 'you're peripheral and you'll always be peripheral. You'll come in with the zingers and have very little to do, so just accept that and take the money.'

You have to actually believe in your capacity to change for habits to permanently change.

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

When you permit yourself to lose for more than 30 minutes then it can carry over to the next day. I think it's important to understand that. I think that mindset is contributing.

Anorexia is pernicious and not something which goes away overnight.

I always thought that I would just be working in obscurity in perpetuity.

I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out of high school, then wrote the first Lincoln Perry novel when I was 19. It didn't sell, but I liked the character and I knew the world so I tried what was, in my mind, a sequel. Wrote that when I was 20, and that one made it.

Perseverance is my motto!

The perseverance and the strength and the determination and the sacrifice that so many millions of people have had to endure to form this country is far greater than anything that we can really imagine.

I've definitely been in ruts, and I think having some kind of perseverance is important.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.

It's a combination of how much efforts you put in, how much you're working on a daily basis on your goals and it also has to do with a bit of luck. It's difficult but you've to be very patient. The main thing is perseverance.

If you want to write, just believe that you can, because it's about perseverance.

I have always been one to encourage perseverance.

There's something to be said for perseverance.

We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.

If you have perseverance, you're going to be able to push through a lot of things into some really great areas.

Being one of the few African American women to make it to this level in a classical ballet company, the level of American Ballet Theatre, takes a lot of perseverance.

People said 'Mimi doesn't know how to act and her diction is bad,' but my perseverance helped me overcome my shortcomings and here I am today.

Persevere. That's what I always say to people. There's no easy route.

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.