Persistence Quotes

"I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way."

- Gustav Mahler

"It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me."

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

""It gets easier. Every day, it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day. That's the hard part.""

- The running baboon from Bojack Horseman

"The most essential factor is persistence—the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come."

- James Whitcomb Riley

"Hiring the right people takes time, the right questions and a healthy dose of curiosity."

- Richard Branson

"The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success."

- Jack Canfield

"I think if you just hang in there long enough and keep doing what you know is your sweet spot, I think the world eventually catches up to you."

- Courtney B. Vance

"If there's anything I'm proud of in my career, it's that I've been able to hang in there and keep progressing over the years."

- Doris Burke

"As a young actor, I was advised to bide my time. Back then, there weren't good roles for someone like me. There were handsome leading men and character actors for smaller supporting roles. But I was told to hang in there, and it was good advice. We're all character actors now. Even a handsome man is a character actor at my age."

- Jim Broadbent

"Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door."

- Cliff Robertson

"My ideal relationship with the reader is that at certain points they will have said, 'I'm finding this quite tough, but I'm going to hang in there,' then at the end they will say, 'Oh God, I'm glad I hung on, it was so worth it.'"

- Sebastian Faulks

"I've inherited a kind of... willfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens."

- Tony Goldwyn

"You've got to be able to hang in there in some uncomfortable pockets and uncomfortable situations, where you're going to take a hit and deliver the football."

- Matt LaFleur

"We got a thumbs-down from every label. But you gotta keep the faith, man. You gotta hang in there and be tenacious."

- Gina Schock

"If I could talk to my younger self, I'd both give myself a slap and reassure myself that it's going really good in 2024, so just hang in there."

- Adam Pearson

"Guys are bigger, stronger, just like in singles, serving bigger, returning better, and more athletic for sure. I think from my standpoint, just spending more time in the gym has enabled me to hang in there."

- Daniel Nestor

"I spent money, and I kept thinking, 'I get one more movie and I'll wipe these bills out,' but that movie never came. That black pride, I said, 'Man, I'm going to hang in there, I'm going to pay these bills.' So you owe a million dollars. 'I can pay that.' OK, fines, fees, now you owe two and a half million. 'But I didn't do nothin'!'"

- Sinbad

"Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her."

- Bonnie Hunt

"Over the years, I've learned that if you can just hang in there and, regardless of what's presented to you, take it as a challenge and try to bring in something fresh, then it works."

- Adam West

"I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art... briefly."

- Ridley Scott

"Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. They longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist the more likely your success."

- Jack Canfield

"If what you are doing is worth doing, hang in there until it is done."

- Nido R Qubein

"Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong"

"Nevertheless, she persisted."

"Take it day by day"

"Working safely may get old, but so do those who practice it."

- Unknown

"Safety is not a one-time event – it is an ongoing process."

- Unknown

"The price of safety is eternal vigilance."

- Unknown

"Recruiting is both an art and a science—one that requires persistence, empathy, and resilience."

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out"