Quotes About Persistence

If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

Still,' whispered Jack, 'you have to keep at it. Overcome the miseries of vomiting and the whirling pit. Pay your dues and work towards the real rewards of big-time adult drinking. Something to look forward to.

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand — I use those words interchangeably — another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I'm not one. I'd rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can't ignore.

When things become insurmountable, some people quit, some keep going for no other reason than to continue. Because that's all there is to do.

If you've never experienced the misery of failure, the chances are pretty good that you haven't tried very hard to succeed. I've never met anyone who has made it to the top—and managed to stay there—who didn't first taste the bitterness of defeat, usually many defeats.

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

All your dreams can come true. It s not easy but not impossible either.

The picture of continually walking may be unpleasant and tiring to us. To constantly pay attention to our next step—always thinking about whether it's along the path of life or along the way of destruction—takes a lot of thought and effort. Wouldn't it be nice just to be able to get off the road and relax for a while? Or, as someone put it, "Lord, please give me the vacation of a second!

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.

Tough tims never last but tough people do..

Tough times never last. Tough people do

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.

By means of industry and perseverance you will rise higher and higher.

I will not let thee go. I hold thee by too many bands: Thou sayest farewell, and lo! I have thee by the hands, And will not let thee go.

Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Sukces przypomina troch? zapasy z gorylem. Nie przestajesz, kiedy jeste? zm?czony. Rezygnujesz dopiero, gdy zm?czony jest goryl.

You're only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something.