Quotes About Persistence

All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

Had you told me 20 years ago this would be my life, I'd have gone "What?" and then stuck out my tongue to all the girls that were mean to me.

Fitness is a journey, not a destination; you must continue for the rest of your life.

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.

I can't give up that quick My life is a candle and a wick You can put it out, but you can't break it down In the end we are waiting to be lit

I'm happy 'bout life. Still trying. I ain't giving up on life.

My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it throughout my whole life—to stay fit and feel good.

Life don't come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain't nobody handing it to us.

I have been contending all my life, and always with God.

That's always the way in life: the longer you leave things, the harder they are to do.

That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.' Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo's life.

Everything in my life has been challenging but rewarding.

It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

There's always negatives no matter what you're in in life. However if you keep being persistent the negative usually becomes a positive.

I said if I made 10 films in my life, I would be very lucky. That's how I meant it. My fear after my first one was whether they would let me make another one, so I had this goal in my head.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You get nowhere standing up, so get up on that seat and go!