Quotes About Persistence

T]he question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

Boy, this really wasn't one of his days. He just couldn't put a foot right. It was a situation all too familiar to me, this business of setting off on the wrong foot and doggedly remaining there. Only I'd never watched it from the outside before. It was fascinating.

Nothing delays healing as much as a constant change of remedies.

I remember that we are all young, and I feel youngness in me, that I can keep trying. You can try a hundred things in your life, and if nothing in those hundred makes you satisfied, you can still go on trying.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done, quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there's so little competition.

He who thinks to win without doing their very best will find himself a loser in the race.

Bright Blue Day   SOMEHOW Maddie could not buckle down to work. She sharpened her pencil

there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

Because sometimes it doesn't help to chase after the thing you want. No. Sometimes you have to wait, however long it takes, until what you want most comes to you.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can't be done.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, "It can't be done.

People can surmount what seems to be total defeat, difficulties too great to be borne, but it requires a capacity to readjust endlessly to the changing conditions of life.

The future is for those who believe in the beauty of their dreams