Quotes About Perseverance

Hidden behind your fears and your failures is the success you seek.

I don't have to be a success. I can just try.

You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

One thing that was inspiring to me in my research about [Georgia] O'Keeffe was to learn that in addition to her success she had very hard times, and times when she was frustrated and uninspired.

Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

I fail sometimes, I succeed sometimes, so that's fair enough. It's a package deal. It comes with that package: failures and success.

PhD, MFA, self-taught - the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

Big success requires big sacrifices. Don't find out later that the cost was too high. Denial is said to be even more potent than cocaine; neither drug enhances your marketability.

It's hard dealing with day to day disappointments and feeling like you can't find success. Especially when your best friend is Pixar.

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.

Even success needs its consolations.

There is no top. You are never going to reach the top if you go for success. That way lies madness.

Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success.

You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale.

Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

You factor in racism as a reality and you keep moving.

The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.