Quotes About Perseverance

If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.

If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

So black was the way ahead that my progress consisted of long periods of inert despondency punctuated by spasmodic lurches forward towards any small chink of light that I thought I saw ... As the years went by, it did not get lighter but I became accustomed to the dark.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

You might not want to do it, but you can do it. In fact, a case could be made, if you can't do it, you don't deserve to eat pork.

Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?

I'd lost faith in anyone giving me money- and then that's when I got the money.

When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed.

Once a task has just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all.

Well, listen, anger doesn't get anything done, so you have to find out: How do you make it work? That's why I was always maniacal about transforming every problem into a puzzle which I can solve. I can solve a puzzle—a problem just stresses me out.

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.

Learn to deal with the valleys, the hills will take care of themselves.

Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.

Thank goodness for hearts that wouldn't die, for spirits that still danced even after they'd been wounded.

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

The only thing what you can get, when you search for it is 'success'... But the most important tool for finding it is 'hardwork'...

Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.

Bootless grief hurts a man?s self, but patience makes a jest of an injury.