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Quotes about Persistence

When I first started acting, I was just crap.
— Heath Ledger
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
— Joyce Meyer
Every day, you got to do adjustments. Every pitch. You got to do what it takes.
— Miguel Cabrera
Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
— Zig Ziglar
I don't like to talk about my dreams. I like to make them happen. I prefer to talk about them when they're done.
— Diane von Furstenberg
When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.
— Sonia Sotomayor
There is a part of me that's oblivious. People always ask me, 'What obstacles have you faced?' and I always think, 'What are you talking about?' Whether or not there were obstacles, I never saw obstacles. It's never occurred to me that I wasn't good enough for something.
— Shonda Rhimes
sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having
— Richard Paul Evans
Only those who never step, never stumble.
— Richard Paul Evans
Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just one step of faith after another.
— Richard Paul Evans
We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don't just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak
— Richard Paul Evans
They tried to bury us. They just didn't know we were seeds.
— Richard Paul Evans