Quotes About Persistence

They'll say you're too little, Werner, that you're from nowhere, that you shouldn't dream big. But I believe in you Werner. I think you'll do something great. -All The Light We Cannot See

You must never stop believing. That's the most important thing." - Madam Manec

Fishing is about time, he tells Dorotea. It's about how much time you can keep your line in the water. Can't catch fish if your line isn't in the water.

The Americans were badly discouraged. Twelve days to go, stripped of their gear, sniffling, they huddled in a Kraków McDonald's and invoked middle-school platitudes about Cornwallis's surrender and Valley Forge, about pitching crates of tea into Boston Harbor and bloody-soled snow marches for the good of the Republic. We must not quit now, they mumbled, and dipped their chicken nuggets into a tasteless sauce.

is like an angry hen. The more you chase, the harder it is to catch her. You wait, and be patient, and hope that eventually she comes to you.

A failure is not a reason to stop. It's a reason to start again, and harder.

don't get mad at your failures, get up and do it again tomorrow.

the myth was a tenacious plant

Resistance to change has been strong.

The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant "I try and I achieve.

Give him his due: this is a man who has always faced his fears square on, whether they be a deadly swamp adder, a hideous poison that might drive you to insanity or a hell-hound set loose on the moors. Holmes has done many things that are, frankly, baffling – but he has never run away.

One car behind him. Two

I'm not going to get any

Shi bai kepu seck yi!

When in doubt, keep paddling.

One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.

I want to do more and more; it provides me with an incentive.

Something like 'Much Ado' happens, and even 'Avengers' happens because of the years of building connections and doing the work and proving yourself.

I don't mind proving myself again and again.

You have to keep proving yourself over and over again.

You have to keep proving yourself - every film - until the audience believes you can do anything.

I love hard work and proving people wrong.

I've been working at this for a while now, so seeing the success of 'Sweet but Psycho' is kind of mind-blowing, but it's exciting.

I have a job - it's a great job, and I love doing it - but I can't not work. That's not psychological; that's practical.