Quotes About Persistence

Motivational speaking became my career. Who would ever have thought it?

I had developed a relationship with one of the anti-abortion sidewalk counselors who stood in front of my facility. We talked regularly through the fence and she had asked me to go have coffee with her one day. I was impressed with her persistence and, honestly, I thought I would really like her if I got to know her.

I never give up on anything, because you come back around, and suddenly the thing you thought you'd never do is relevant.

My first month in syndication, I made about $100. I thought it would be exciting if I ever got up to the level where I could pay my rent.

The most incredible businesses are started by entrepreneurs who relentlessly pursue their passion, but passion works best with a thoughtful, ambitious-yet-grounded business plan.

The times when black women have been successful in confronting and overcoming the structural and institutional sexism and racism that persists in our society have been when we are thoughtful and strategic about speaking up. It's when we've done what it takes to introduce and implement our ideas and our plans to make things better.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

The first hundred thousand - that was hard to get, but afterwards, it was easy to make more.

I've always believed in the power of prayer. One prayer can accomplish more than a thousand plans. That isn't a magic formula, but it's an idea that if you pray, keep praying and then praying some more.

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.

There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.

You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.

People don't realize that one picture for you is just one picture. But for me, I take a thousand pictures a day. That adds up. It's tough getting somewhere on time when you have to stop that much.

Three thousand hits is something that should stand for itself.

There are a thousand ways you can be told 'no' in this country.

I did some background work for a movie called 'Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius' in Atlanta and got bit by the bug. That was it. I saved a few thousand dollars and packed up my car. I had hoped that I would start working just doing some modeling stuff or something while I studied acting. I thought I could support myself that way.

There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be.

Bir adam vazgeçtiÄŸi ÅŸeylerin çok uza??na gidip kaybolursa bir daha asla geri dönemeyebilirdi.

A little uptight? Hey, man you couldn't drag a needle out of her butt with a tractor.

I didn't say I was going to find the Mad Monk." "But you will," he said, placing his worn and stained Stetson on his head. "You've got that look about you. "What look is that?" I asked, tired of his family maligning mine. "A Goodnight look?" "A responsible one." He adjusted his hat, in a motion I'd seen Ben make a dozen times that day, right before he drove home his point. "Like you're the girl who takes care of things. So take care of it, dammit.

I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.