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Quotes About Persistence

I only have one idea, that is WhatsApp, and I am going to continue to focus on that. I have no plans to build any other ideas.
~ Jan Koum
I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.
~ John Burnside
I got into modeling first, then acting came along pretty soon, and I landed my first role in a Korean drama without education, without any acting experience whatsoever.
~ Claudia Kim
Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.
~ Lorne Michaels
You can believe or you can doubt yourself. It's the difference between a gap being one metre late that you're gonna launch, then it's three seconds and you're sat on the wheel and you're about to lose.
~ Mark Cavendish
Once you're on the wheel, you don't come off.
~ Ian St. John
One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.
~ Sean Hannity
It once amused me that it took me three tries to pass my driver's test and that my driving instructor told my mother that I was the least talented person behind the wheel that she had ever taught.
~ Jane Smiley
As an international cricketer, you have to keep reinventing the wheel, being consistent is part of it.
~ Dinesh Karthik
You know, hip hop is a big ferris wheel that goes around and you've just gotta be able to maintain yourself while it's going around.
~ Jadakiss
If 'Bio-Man' dies, maybe I'll go on and work on something that becomes the next 'Wheel of Fortune.'
~ Haim Saban
I feel very badly about anybody that's sick and in a wheelchair or not doing well. But you know, you have to go, 'Life is a poker game, and we're going to play our cards somehow.'
~ Teri Garr
Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
~ Zach Anner
The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country.
~ Tammy Duckworth
I believe in pushing my records until the wheels fall off.
~ Chamillionaire
Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly.
~ Terry Waite
Life is like a Lamborghini. A Lamborghini has an engine, a body, and wheels. No matter how strong your engine is, if you don't have any wheels, you're not going anywhere.
~ Fabio Lanzoni
I have a Masters and a technology degree already. When I'm not in film or television, my wheels are spinning full time.
~ Lamman Rucker
My saying is to 'Ride until the wheels fall off.'
~ Shawn Porter
When in doubt, use brute force.
~ Ken Thompson
When in doubt, take more time.
~ John Zimmerman
Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'
~ Dr. Seuss
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
~ Washington Irving
Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.
~ John Oliver