Quotes About Perseverance

I don't want to leave this planet until I achieve everything that I was put here to do.

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

Fake it until you make it.

Really, you don't lose until you stop trying.

One time, when I was in my teens, jamming in a Kansas City club, I was doing all right until I tried doing double tempo on 'Body and Soul.' Everybody fell out laughing. I went home and cried and didn't want to play again for three months.

Nothing is over until you quit.

The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.

If you do not try, you will never succeed. So try and try until you do.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Every other guitar player was just copying other guitarists. From the time I was 13 up until 18, I practiced at least eight hours a day, every day. My health suffered for it - I was losing sleep and not eating properly.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb.

I believe that, as an athlete, how you got to the age of 42 makes a big difference. I have learned about my body; I haven't gone off only talent until I was 42.

Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have, and I understand that as much as anyone.

I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20s.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

It's like, if you're on a ship, and you're sailing towards your destination, but the ship sinks: that doesn't mean that you have to sink. Just because the ship sinks doesn't mean you have to sink. You just figure it out until a raft comes along, and God will send you a raft. Or He'll send you another boat to get you to your destination.

Let us fight until the end. Let me try at least that - fight.

We grew up very poor, and I hated being poor. I was the oldest of five kids, and I never got a pair of skates until I was nine. It was very difficult to get an education back then and play junior hockey.