Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wesley Morris

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

Wangari Maathai

What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger.

Yukio Mishima

For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.

Walter Kirn

At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence is what politicians, seducers and currency speculators have, but persistence is a quality found in termites. It's the blind drive to keep on working that persists after confidence breaks down.

James Joyce

[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

Napoleon Hill

You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power.

Mike Dooley

It only 'doesn't work out' if you quit. Never, ever quit!

Mark Victor Hansen

Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance.

Paul J. Meyer

90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.

Rob Zombie

You can't make everyone happy right away, you can't figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.

William S. Paley

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Sandra Bullock

Everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out.

Troy Garity

I work out, but not like I should.

Jake Abel

I only work out because I have high anxiety, and if I don't I tend to... I say I'm like a border collie. If I don't have something to expend my energy, I chew the furniture. So it just helps me level out so I don't do copious amounts of drugs.

Judi Dench

I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.

Marisa Miller

I don't starve myself. Anyone who knows me will tell you I have an appetite. I'd much rather work out and not diet than not work out and have to diet.

Kristin Davis

Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat.

Knut Hamsun

But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.

Winston Churchill

I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.

Zig Ziglar

Quit counting time and start making time count

Larry Holmes

There is no quit in me.

Louis Sachar

The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.

Norman Vincent Peale

It is always to early to quit.

Sandra Mason

Switch every 30 minutes. I sometimes put a rock or something to show where I am quitting the weeding.

Milton Berle

If you hire relatives, you'll have a payroll that won't quit.

Eric Thomas

Don't cry to quit. Cry to keep going!

Gayle Forman

Quitting’s not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.” “Really? Was that how you quit me?