Quotes About Steadfastness

With Pantera, we lived through so many trend-of-the-day situations - when grunge was huge, we were still a heavy metal band; when hip-hop started getting incorporated into metal, we stuck to our guns and remained a heavy metal band very purposefully.

Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don't get soaked in the rain.

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

It speaks volumes for a person that when placed in quite different situations, they display the same spirit of moderation.

Dripping water hollows out stone, but through force but through persistence.

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground....

Use disappointments as material for patience.

Perhaps the most important thing in life is for each person to stay headed in the right direction within his assigned place and not to veer off in vain or run around in circles on ill-defined quests.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

Patience is the best medicine.

I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Never quit. Never give up.

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.

There's nothing cheap about loyalty.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.

Be persistent, be persistent, they say. But please, do not mistake being a pest for being persistent.

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

Her lips were tightly glued together, her chin protruding, her whole layout that of a girl who intended to stand no rannygazoo.

As with everything else in life, the instructions remain the same, despite changing circumstances: Chop wood, carry water.

There's no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There's no other way.

Anybody can run away and survive, the trick was to stay and survive