Quotes about Persistence

It's one thing to talk the talk; it's another thing to walk after getting whacked with a coconut.

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.

I have always been a comedian - that has always been my job and it is what I want to do for a long time to come.

That's the thing, never get complacent.

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

Our challenge isn't that we can't be motivated. It's not that we aren't smart, excitable, or that we lack passion - what we don't have is the ability to sustain motivation over time.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.

While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.

Ask, and it will be given to you; search and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For the one who asks always receives; the one who searches always finds; the one who knocks will always have the door opened." —Matthew 7:7—8

Trust the process.

Three steps forward, two steps back.