Quotes About Persistence

You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.

I'm going to write a whole pilot and see if anyone's interested, and if not then I'll just live out the tortured life instead of showing it on TV.

It's absolutely amazing what happens when you're consistent in your walk and you're consistent in the way you live your life.

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

Life is the path you beat while you walk it.

I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to act. I've stuck with it, dedicated time to it.

Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.

I've heard all my life that 'this is impossible, you can't make' it and 'you're going to fail' but I didn't listen to them and I made it.

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.

I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

Being an artist is a job for life.

The thing about failure is that you never know how close you were to success.

It's been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things to do.

Life is not supposed to be easy. Stop working so hard to make it that way. Go ahead and handle it!

If my life was a film, I'd have walked out by now.

If you do something for so long, it's really great in your life, right?