Quotes About Persistence

Just because you're struggling with self-discipline doesn't mean you have to raise the white flag and declare your self-improvement efforts a complete failure. Instead, work to increase the chances that you'll stick to your healthier habits - even when you don't feel like it.

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't be dismantled in a year, especially when Democrats control the White House.

It's a bummer sometimes but I always believe that great bands and great music always prevail.

I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.

I went a long way to play in Manchester United, so nothing will prevent me from achieving my dream.

With anything you do and you dedicate yourself to and you dedicate thousands and thousands of hours, eventually you're gonna get a little bit better at it unless there's some innate impairment preventing that.

The challenge is how to be better than the day before, than the previous game.

It's right to flog a dead horse sometimes, when the previous flogging has not annihilated it.

I will not give way because too many previous governments have backed down.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

There were a few times in previous fights where I was hurt. It's just a matter of not giving up, if you know what I'm saying.

But this is what I want to do, and it is what I will continue doing until Judas Priest finishes, which, at the moment, I can't see that yet. It could be three years or five years, who knows?

I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!

When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'

There was a point when I thought I would primarily be a writer, but the acting seems to have got in the way. So when I do get a chance, I jump at it.

I liken all jobs to decorating. If you don't do the preparation, sand down and prime first, you won't get a good paint job, and that's the same as everything in life.

To be prime minister, you need to fight many entities, you need to be very determined. It's not going to fall in your lap.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

I remember giving auditions for ad films and I used to wait for hours for my turn to come. I used to go for print shoots for Rs 2000. I used to go to the director's office with my portfolio and the receptionists used to tell me to put it in the post box outside.

I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.

I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.

How do I feel when I look back at prior work? Hmmm. I think, 'I tried to do the best I could do. It's not perfect. It will never be perfect.' And then I think, 'I want to try again.'