Quotes About Persistence

You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.

You just have to keep going to find that thing that lets you in the door. Sometimes in life when that day comes and you're given the key, you throw it away.

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

And not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now.

A dedication to perfection means that we are doomed always to be just a heartbeat way - from exposure. Perfection is unchanging; lives are ongoing.

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

Every day in life there are challenges; whether you're an accountant, a race car driver or whatever you do.

Theres gonna be times in life when people tell you that you can't, thats when you just gotta turn around and say watch me.

Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.

I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

You build a successful life a day at a time.

I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don't think I had a day that I ever questioned creativity. There has never been a day like that.

I just want to go for it. In every aspect of my life and careers, I just want to give it all I have.

Daily life is the enemy of greatness.

If you would have the message of the gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats ... It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

As the body cannot be sustained without corporeal food, nor continue in natural life, so without this life-giving food the soul cannot persist in the spiritual life of grace.

I'd never make a film that I am not passionate about. My whole life, I've only made the films I wanted to make, even when I had limited means.

We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight

Pulling yourself up again is the most important part of your life. Getting out of the bottom that you put everything into - yourself!