Quotes About Persistence

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

Determination can change your mind. Determination can change your heart. Determination can change your life altogether.

Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.

No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.

Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you.

Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.

Fall forward, in your failing, and rise up with a soul on fire!

If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits.

No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

With life many things are remedied.

Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions.

One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.

When you get knocked down you get knocked down in Round 1 of life, there's Round 2.

Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.

Study is a life long pursuit.

I am a Body-for-LIFE Challenge 2000 Winner. "Winners finish and finishers win."

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

People write to me and say, 'I'm giving up, you're not talking to me.' I just write them a simple message like, 'Never give up,' you know? And it changes their life.