Quotes About Persistence

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.

Life will find a way.

The big turn in the late 90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down.

The journey towards the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself: the moment will come where what seemed to be close to you is in fact still very far away.

The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams.

Backing down can become a way of life.

I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.

No matter what's going on in your life, don't let anybody take those dreams from you.

Do whatever you gotta do to chase your legacy every second of your life.

If you want to get on in life get off your arse because it ain't going to come to you. And if it does come to you and you're not off your arse then you ain't going to keep it very long.

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man.

If you want something hard enough, whether it be a material possession or just something in your life, if you work hard enough there is absolutely no reason why you can't obtain it.

(The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.

I'm always surprised reading my old journals. There's this idea that life is hard now, but then I'll reach that moment where it'll change. But there's no summit. It's a constant climb.

Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.

Enduring to the end is a process filling every minute of our life, every hour, every day, from sunrise to sunrise. It is accomplished through personal discipline following the commandments of God.

When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.

it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.

Some things in life, you don't get. You gotta go take it... Or you'll never have'em.

Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.

Every day of my life I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.