Persistence Quotes

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th" "I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going." "You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby" "This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us" "The first steps of any undertaking are always the most difficult and require the most energy" "Every hero doesn’t do this great big heroic thing. They do the simple thing over and over and over again." "He must first clear the ground to lay the foundations strongly." "It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it’s one damn thing over and over" "You must write every single day of your life." "The show doesn't go on because it's ready; it goes on because it's eleven-thirty." "What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size" "The act of being an artist is not easy and self-discipline is necessary." "There is always someone out there getting better than you" "When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work." "History teaches us that things that have lasted long without intervention have a reason"