Quotes About Persistence

You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.

Failure has been the great theme of my life, I think.

Our central theme is, How good you can get? How hard can I go to see how good you can get?

When I talk to kids, I have a theme: If you work hard, life is easy.

I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

You don't have to be in first place to feel like a winner, you just have to beat the thing, whatever it is, that makes you feel failure is inevitable." "So

It's not winning that's really winning. It's never giving up." "Your

big, flat rock face that looks like you shouldn't be able to find anything to hang on to, yet they slithered up to the top like lizards. What does it take to do something like that, Sully?" He swallowed a mouthful.

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My best advice is this—by the time you meet your Maker, and may it be a long, long time from now, I hope you can close your eyes on a life where you did your damn best and tried your damn hardest. It's not winning that's really winning. It's never giving up.

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There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: Not going all the way, and not starting.

He couldn't let her get away again, or he'd never be the same. She could push him back, be angry about his screwup, but he was going to keep coming at her until he had her attention. She was going to have to tell him, convincingly, that she didn't love him, and didn't want him in her life. That was the only way he'd let go. And he was done tiptoeing around the issue. He

Nobody ever won a race by standing at the starting line.

I was in forever, not just until I didn't get my way.

No guarantee any of us will be much of anything, but we still try.

The thing about nagging is that it's not nagging if you ask a person once. It only becomes nagging when you're asking for the fortieth time.

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.

It was like trying to hand-feed a grizzly bear.

But knowing the first step will get you knowhere - it's what comes after that determines the result.

I'll keep going. Because that's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going. It

Because that's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.

No matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.