Quotes About Perseverance

To be an artist means a lifetime of being told no, with the occasional yes showing up just to give you enough hope to carry on.

The solution was to write my way out of the problem. That meant writing early in the morning, late at night, and on weekends. It meant carving out time, claiming it for myself. I thought: I will write this first book, and then maybe another after that. This is the thing I want to do.

Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.

Attempt something so big, that unless God intervenes, it's bound to fail.

I'll tell you what I think of Alaska. It's neither heaven nor hell, but it'll make a man of you. It will test you and try you and tell you what you're made of," he shrugged. "And then when you think it has taken all you have, it will give something back that more than makes up for it.

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over." Richard Branson, Entrepreneur, founder of Virgin Group

Never let anyone tell you that you're too big, too small, too skinny, too weak, too slow, too dumb, or too much this or not enough that to accomplish your dream. Anything is possible when you work hard and believe in yourself.

The path is never easy, and you may take some L's along the way, but never lose belief in yourself or become so insecure that you step off the path for an easier, safer one. The risky, difficult path is usually the one that leads to your true destiny, to your true calling. So always respect the process, and never give up no matter what.

There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.

The more I am spent, ill, a broken pitcher, the more I become an artist, creator, in this revival of the arts.

Arn was about to say something about having too much work awaiting him, and that only at the end of the workday should a man enjoy the fruits of what he had accomplished by the sweat of his brow.

Erlend also thought that he would undoubtedly make Father Henri very happy with this story, and that his industriousness and exactitude in carrying out this task might also shorten his wait to be admitted as a full brother in the Cistercian order.

a man must meet his enemies, doesn't he? And what kind of enemy must he meet foremost if not the inconvenient of them all?

a man must meet his enemies, doesn't he? And what kind of enemy must he meet foremost if not the the most inconvenient of them all?

The road to Jerusalem at the beginning is winding, my dear, dear Arn.

If all our foes were like Al Ghouti, we would never win,' he said thoughtfully. 'On the other hand, if all our foes were like him, victory would no longer be necessary.