Quotes About Persistence

But you know, sometimes the fight itself is worthwile, even if the prize at the end ain't.

Thomas Edison tried two thousand five hundred different materials in the process of searching for a filament for the light bulb. None worked satisfactorily. So his young assistant complained, "So much work for nothing. We have not learnt anything so far." Edison replied with confidence, "Really? Haven't we learned that there are two thousand five hundred elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb?

There is no great success without concentration: and no concentration in minds that have not been disciplined to long-continued, self-reliant thought.

Any exciting goal will arrange exciting ways to achieve it.

Sentences will be consigned to museums if the emptiness in writing persists.

I think any start has to be a false start because really there's no way to start. You just have to force yourself to sit down and turn off the quality censor. And you have to keep the censor off, or you start second-guessing every other sentence. Sometimes the suspicion of a possible false start comes through, and you have to suppress it to keep writing. But it gets more persistent. And the moment you know it's really a false start is when you start ... it's hard to put into words.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.

The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.

Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? Is it the universe's way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.

Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.

Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.

All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.

And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It's the law of the universe.

But the winners are those who know that when things get really hard and others start to fall away, that is the time to dig deep and give that little bit extra.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game It's easy

Hey Jude, don't be afraid You were made to go out and get her The minute you let her under your skin Then you begin to make it better

I went to LaGuardia, so I'm very close to the reality that lot of actors work rarely.

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

I started pretty young: I did my first reality show when I was 17. Then came 'Roadies' in 2004, when I was 19.

You do your best with the realization that nothing gets you in ring-shape better than being in the ring.

Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.

It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to do - that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.

I loved it. I enjoyed myself so much, and that was what other people couldn't realize. They thought I was going through a nightmare running all day long.