Quotes About Perseverance

So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.

Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.

No work begun shall ever pause for death.

When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.

I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor.

Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.

It's believable because great things don't happen without hard work

I don't want people to say I'm a solid quarterback. I want to be the best, and I'll continually work until I get there.

Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

I will work on Invincible until I am made to quit.

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors who you want to work with doing little movies.

Destiny isn't immutable. You can change your fate. But I'd say the only way to do it is with hard, intelligent work and long-term dedication to a goal.

You work like hell to get yourself ahead in the business. You could go anywhere before, and suddenly you can't go anywhere. It's like being a cartoon character.

Coaching isn't a great mystery. It's Just hard work, determination, and inspiration at the right moment.

If you are going to abandon your work because someone speaks ill of it, then it has never been your work, has it? It becomes theirs. You give it up.

Hope looks good on paper. But what creates greatness is focus, dedication and hard work. Daily. Go do it. We deserve to see you fly in 2014.

Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues.

If a woman's work is never done, she should start earlier.

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.

Obsession makes my life bad and my work good.

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

It's hard to say how time factors into your work, because sometimes things will come to you very quickly, but it will take years for the ideas to be gestating in your mind.