Quotes About Perseverance

Those who are ill-prepared to endure the battle for survival should perhaps never have attempted living in the first place.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.

But whenever I see it happen, I always want to say the same thing. Good luck. Because you still have a woman in front of you, my friend. And you are still a man. It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to become complicated. And love is always complicated. But still humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Most of all, there is this truth: No matter how great your teachers may be, and no matter how esteemed your academy's reputation, eventually you will have to do the work by yourself. Eventually, the teachers won't be there anymore. The walls of the school will fall away, and you'll be on your own. The hours that you will then put into practice, study, auditions, and creation will be entirely up to you.

For better or for worse, my dad taught me that the best place to pitch a tent will always be the spot marked NO CAMPING.

believe that we understand very little, and what we do understand is mostly wrong. I believe that life cannot be survived—that is evident!—but if one is lucky, life can be endured for quite a long while. If one is both lucky and stubborn, life can sometimes even be enjoyed.

Because if you love and want something enough—whatever it is—then you don't really mind eating the shit sandwich that comes with it.

Devo farmi le ossa is how they say it in Italian. "I need to make my bones.

Of course nobody is required to stand in the field of honor...If you find it too challenging, you may always exit, and then you can remain a child. But if you wish to be a person of character, I'm afraid this is the only way. But it may be painful.

What you absolutely must not do is turn around and walk out. Otherwise, you will miss the party, and that would be a pity, because—please believe me—we did not come all this great distance, and make all this great effort, only to miss the party at the last moment.

Struggle explained everything.

Her sadness was ceaseless, but she kept it quarantined in a governable little quarter of her heart. It was the best she could do.

Frustration is not an interruption of your process; frustration is the process.

We were so committed to solving this thing. Because how could two people so in love NOT end up happily ever after? It HAD to work. Didn't it?

Every time you express a complaint about how difficult and tiresome it is to be creative, inspiration takes another step away from you

Despair is a tedious business and quickly becomes repetitive.

I MYSELF HAVE CLUNG TO EXISTENCE LIKE A BARNACLE TO A BOAT BOTTOM

He realized that "failure has a function. It asks you whether you really want to go on making things.

Most dangerously of all, such thinking assumes that if you cannot win, then you must not continue to play.

Work with all your heart, because—I promise—if you show up for your work day after day after day after day, you

But I remember thinking that learning how to endure your disappointment and frustration is part of the job of a creative person. If you want to be an artist of any sort, it seemed to me, then handling your frustration is a fundamental aspect of the work—perhaps the single most fundamental aspect of the work.

I don't think that marriage means to suffer endlessly, in order to prove that you can honor a commitment. I don't think marriage is supposed to be an endurance contest.

This proclamation of intent and entitlement is not something you can do just once and then expect miracles; it's something you must do daily, forever.

If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.