Quotes About Persistence

You won't escape me. I like you more and more. You're a lucky catch. I congratulate myself.

well were those that were destined to do so from the very beginning, without any help at all, while all the others were lost in spite of following them so closely, in spite of all the effort, all the small apparent victories that gave such pleasure.

The road is endless, there are no shortcuts and no detours, and yet everyone brings to it their own childish haste.

Above he could not stop half way, that was nonsense not only in business but always and everywhere. 

Yes, they are hounding me.

If ever that door offers itself to me again, I swore, I will go in out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome futilities. I will go and never return. This time I will stay... I swore it and when the time came — I DIDN'T GO.

we don't have to fly straight into the sun, but we do need to creep into some tidy little place on earth where the sun sometime shines and where we can find a little warmth for ourselves.

Die Logik war unerschütterlich, aber einem Menschen, der leben will, widersteht sie nicht.

He smiled and said, "You want me to tell you the way?" "Yes," I said, "because I can't find it myself." "Give up, give up," he said, and turned away abruptly, like someone who wanted to be alone with his laughter.

I started working full time as a comedian in 2005, shortly after we did the Vince Vaughn 'Wild West Comedy Show.' I worked at the Four Seasons hotel from 1998 to 2005, so about seven years, just trying to put some food on the table and pay the rent while I went out to the open mics and got my feet wet with stand-up comedy.

I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.

I think the wildest thing you do to get a role is putting yourself together for an audition.

If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years.

Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

Wildlife photography takes a long time because you have to wait for things to happen.

I like to say I sit alone in my room, and I fight the language. I am wildly obsessive. I can't let something go if I think it's wrong.

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

I'm wildly unskilled at what I do. Part of me thinks: 'Why do I think I can pull this off?' but the part of me that has to pay the mortgage thinks: 'Just get on with it!' I'll just keep going until someone discovers I'm no good.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.

Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

I am a fighter; I will keep fighting and will never give up.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.