Quotes about Persistence
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
— Jennifer Aniston
I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.
— Jennifer Lopez
Being repulsed continually hardened her.
— Emily Bronte
I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
— Emily Bronte
The young man evidently thought it too bad that he should be laughed at for his ignorance, and then laughed at for trying to remove it.
— Emily Bronte
How often am I to call you? There are only a few red ashes now. Joseph! come this moment.' Vigorous puffs, and a resolute stare into the grate, declared he had no ear
— Emily Bronte
No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
— Epictetus
remain steadfast in pursuing your mission, always willing to shed distractions.
— Epictetus
Don't give in to second thoughts, because no one who wavers will make progress.
— Epictetus
want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.
— Erica Jong
If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see.
— Amy Grant