Quotes About Perseverance

Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal, firmly persists and calmly perseveres.

Some days success just means not giving up.

You need a string of successes behind you to buoy that self-image; otherwise, you have a terribly negative attitude about yourself and it is very unlikely you are going to succeed at anything.

That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.

It's hard to find success and it's hard to find hit movies or hit TV shows and to stay relevant. I think it's a very difficult thing for actors, because a lot of us get lost, frankly.

Success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw and says, "There is a way for me and, by jingo, I'll find it".

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

If people try to push me over into the category of not being a major success, I can think to myself, "Well, of course I'm not. I just started!"

She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.

We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.

Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.

The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

All success is, really, is having a predetermined plan and carrying it out successfully over a long period of time.

I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.

As for how I feel about any success I've had, I just feel extremely lucky. Writing is a tough racket, and there are a lot of writers out there better than me who can't seem to catch a break.

The difference between trying and doing is one leads to success, while the other leads to excuses.

Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.

Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.

Failure is just success rounded down.

My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.