Quotes About Persistence

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

You can overcome your fears, you cange change, you can make life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon. So hang in.

If you're gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.

Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.

An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.

Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.

It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through it. But I did!

I've seen too much in life to give up.

The worst happens, and life still goes on.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.

Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.

Never say never - in fashion and life

The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.

When life hands me lemons I hand them back and pick something else.

Every game is an away game. Sometimes its hard to keep up with real life.

Your life is a lot bigger than this moment. You need to remember that you can't let the trials you face right now derail your course forever.

You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.

I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.

I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.