Quotes About Persistence

The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat.

Patience is the First Lesson.

Life is as inexorable as the sea.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

I found that while life drags on when you're losing, it marches on when you're winning.

Life smacks Tracy Morgan in the face, and I don't mean to talk in third party, but no, it doesn't stop raining when I come outside, no, absolutely not. I'm very in touch.

At certain point, you realize it's easy to play music for the rest of your life: just don't sell your guitar. Maybe you get a day job, but as long as you have a guitar, you can play.

I never had a rejection slip in my life.

Scrutiny has never scared me because I have had detractors all my life.

A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.

Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk.

I'm doing this because I want to do it better.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

Remember, itÂ's the finish, not the start, that counts the most in life.

In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.

As a filmmaker, it's about surviving and lasting. So many talented people that I've known in my life - directors and writers - just haven't made it and haven't had a chance.

I never went through a period where I didn't want to play music. I've always loved it and it's always been a huge part of my life.

I'd be terrified even now for a Latin kid wanting to be an actor, but back then? Forget it. They must have thought I was going to be working in restaurants and driving cabs for the rest of my life.

It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.

I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.

In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it.

Always remember that if you give up in life, life didn't give up on you, you gave up on life.

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.