Quotes About Persistence

There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.

I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

Gardening is all about optimism. I put a seed in the ground. I consistently tend it, confident I will see the results, in time, of the nurture I have provided.

You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.

Five years is a long time to play one part.

A true spiritual seeker should exercise control all the time, throughout the day and night.

It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something, it seems to take longer.

We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.

I'm not going anywhere. I will be here for a very long time.

Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow."

I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.

I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.

I'm a really firm believer that anyone can get pretty good at anything if you just do it all the time and you just keep working at it.

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats.

Follow your goals and stay focused, because you really don't have much time.

It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.

I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I'll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.