Quotes About Perseverance

It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.

Every time I am fearful I think to myself, the reason they do this is to discourage me from doing what I do. Hence, if I discontinue my work I will have succumbed to my fears.

I learned that hard work is everything. As long as you keep working, keep working and keep working, you will get where you wanna go.

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.

There has been peace. There will be peace again. But right now, we have work to do.

But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.

I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.

The only way we can keep our freedom is to work at it. Not some of us. All of us. Not some of the time, but all of the time.

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.

Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can't see myself writing about modern middle-class Londoners anytime soon.

I'll play as long as I'm still willing to work this much, to do all these sacrifices

It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

I can't think of very many people who work as hard at the craft of songcraft as Gord Downie does. It was life or death. Every syllable was important.

I work pretty hard, and struggle, and things are hard, but the most important thing to remember is that I have beautiful children that I love, and I love them.

If you want me to come and caddie for you full time, you've got to sit down and do some hard work and do some hard yards because that's what I expect.

You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.

I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.

I don't really think of writing as a career. It's something that happened to me. By working harder than I knew it was possible to work, I have become passable at it.

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it.

Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!

It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour.

We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".