Quotes About Persistence

I want to keep working really hard at getting better at stand-up and touring, and I can't imagine a time when I won't want to do that. But, who knows?

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

Overnight success just doesn't happen. You've got to put your time in. You're up and down - all of a sudden, it just clicks

Every time I bomb out, I have to come back. I have a feeling after a bad race that my next one will be good.

One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.

I've been pushed down many flights of stairs in my time, but I always manage to find an elevator

I know that big, important things don't just come together overnight, but I've been me for a long time now and it's still not working.

Part of the writer's task is to recognize what he's done, then dive back in and make the connections clearer. I'm a strong believer in getting things right the ninth or tenth time.

There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.

Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

Those who fled will fight another time.

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.

When I was doing local weather full time, I would wake up in the morning or stay up all night to make sure the snowflakes started at the time that I said they would.

Be at your best at all times.

You bite off more than you can chew, 'course you're going to choke. One bite at a time. And that goes for thinking things, too, not just food.

It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.

Sometimes you have to fight for what you want,' Chip said, his expression set. 'Sometimes the fight is all you get.

We haven't changed enough, Natalie said in a small, pained voice. But - we're trying.

And those were the ingredients for my happily ever after.

Still," the kender said softly, "we have to keep trying and hoping. That's what's important, the trying and the hoping. Maybe that's most important of all.