Quotes about Persistence
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
— Dale Carnegie
Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.
— St. Jerome
My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.
— Will Smith
Everybody has adversity in their lives and we all have to find ways of overcoming them. You've got to soldier on, make the best of it, look for the positive in everything.
— Judith Durham
One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.
— Andrew Lloyd Webber
It's one thing to talk the talk; it's another thing to walk after getting whacked with a coconut.
— Roddy Piper
Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.
— Lee Ann Womack
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.
— Iain Stirling
That's the thing, never get complacent.
— Jofra Archer
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.
— John Oliver
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.
— Brendon Burchard
Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.
— Richard Baxter