Quotes About Persistence

I want to give up every single day of my life, but I can't. I'm obsessed.

In life or in football, touchdowns rarely take place in seventy yard increments. Usually it's three yards and a cloud of dust.

It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

Overcoming the difficulties of an ultramarathon reminds me that I can overcome the difficulties of life

Anything a person chases in life runs away.

Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version.

When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous.

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.

At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, there is always hope.

I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.

I'm not going to spend two years of my life on something that I'm not excited about.

Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.

Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!

I'm a big believer that, in life, we can't succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.

I've never worked so hard for anything in my life as I have for you.

We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.

Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

In this life you have obstacles.