Quotes About Persistence

For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.

I believe this: If an actor wants a role or wants to work with somebody, then you do everything within reason to try to get that role. If they want you to audition, you audition. If they want you to screen-test, you screen-test. If they want you to come and tap-dance in their hallway, you tap-dance in their hallway.

It is no good being good in halves of games or in one game and not in the next one.

My all-time favourite children's book is 'Green Eggs and Ham' by Dr Seuss. Even as an adult I still appreciate it - what a masterclass in writing.

I know it's hard for people to imagine a time when 'Hamilton' wasn't 'Hamilton,' but for years, it was just this little thing that I was telling people about that didn't make any sense to anybody as I was describing it. But I loved it.

Don't force it, get a bigger hammer.

We're not saying people don't need fuel for strenuous work; they just don't need it constantly. People have many more resources at hand than they might think.

You do feel bad when things don't work. But you cannot succeed without failing. It goes hand-in-hand.

I don't want anything handed to me, I want to work for everything I have... that's the way I've done everything in my life.

Nothing was ever handed to me. I mean nothing.

I feel like a blind man searching a dark room. (Old Man Alone on Labor Day Weekend -- blog post)

Believe in Lord Arthur. Believe in your Carp. We shall prevail.

What Great Beast will have their solitude pierced by your grasping little voices?

Love That Knows No Borders Never stop praying. —1 Thessalonians 5:17

Never stop praying. —1 Thessalonians 5:17

For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. —Matthew 7:8

Don't give up on the "rocks" you know. Keep praying and loving and trusting God to reach the places you can't. — Jossy Grey —

Often it takes persistent love to reach out to others and include them.

So let's not get tired of doing what is good. —Galatians 6:9

God doesn't give up. His love is greater than our refusal to listen. — Richard Holland —

Four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. Then they lowered the man on his mat, right down in front of Jesus. —Mark 2:3–4

Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere. —Ephesians 6:18

Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. —Matthew 7:7

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can change riders. You can get a committee to study the dead horse. You can benchmark how other companies ride dead horses. You can declare that it's cheaper to feed a dead horse. You can harness several dead horses together. But after you've tried all these things, you're still going to have to dismount.