Quotes About Perseverance

I used to break three or four strings a night, and the show would be over because I didn't know how to change the strings.

I went through a period in my life where I didn't have money to buy ramen noodles and peanut butter and jelly, but I also needed to go to the guitar store and buy strings and picks and polish and rags. I couldn't live with myself if I didn't play guitar.

It took me five years to make 'Kubo and the Two Strings.'

I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

I know this as a musician: When you nail something, and you get so much attention for it, you want to strip that away and prove, mostly for yourself, that you don't need that.

I'm doing my best to stay off that financing scheme that relies on this one strip of capital, which is the red carpet. And - no sob story - but it's hard. It takes a while.

I've earned every stripe that I've gotten. I've earned every playing time.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I was straight out of grad school, and I didn't have a single credit to my name. I knew one person in town - another actor whose name is John Billingsley. I just had to audition and audition and audition. I was plugging away for 15 years. So I earned my stripes!

Getting bad reviews or doing something that's not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I've earned my stripes a bit.

It's not like they just open the gate to Hollywood and off you go - you earn your stripes. I worked ferociously hard even just to get an agent.

A lot of bands break through with their third record: the White Stripes, the Clash, the Replacements.

So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.

There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.

If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence.

We strive for greatness.

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

I love what I do and I strive to be better; that's what keeps me going. I'm never a slacker, always a striver.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.

My mother and brother made me strive to get good grades and get through school.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Sometimes it's not always perfect, and there are mistakes, and you pick yourself up and move on. I've learned you can't be a perfectionist. I still strive to do my best in every area, but I've learned to let go.