Quotes About Persistence

Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.

I refuse to take shortcuts.

I love to see heroes who fuel some kind of moral furnace inside them, who are driven to take on the evils of the world, despite the fact that the evils of the world are more powerful than them. And essentially can never be defeated, but they refuse to bow down. And in order to enjoy that aspect of the hero, you've got to put them through hell.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

I have a little Honda Del Sol that I just refuse to get rid of.

I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

Our obligation is to refuse to let bad win, to refuse to let evil hold the field.

I've been told many times that I should give up trying to find balance in my life, but I refuse.

I sometimes feel less than empty; I feel non-existent. Still, I endure. I refuse to give up.

I refuse to take no for an answer on anything.

You can't ever give up. When you refuse to lose games, you often find yourself winning them.

I refuse to give up.

I kind of will over everything. There will be situations where like 'I refuse!'

I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and actually refused to go to the agency, and was approached on different occasions and finally kind of caved and said, 'OK, I'll try it and see what happens.'

I refused to describe myself as an actress until 'EastEnders' because, until then, I couldn't support myself without doing other jobs.

Ranbir was my first choice for 'Ek Deewana Tha.' I tried to get in touch in with. Forget about meeting Ranbir. I couldn't even meet his secretary. Yes, even the secretary refused to meet me.

Nature refuses to rest.

I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down!

I don't know what it is in me that refuses to quit, but I think it's kind of like, dare to dream.

I don't think in genres. Once I get a germ of an idea I wait for it to die! And if it refuses to die and keeps coming back, I start thinking more about it. Then come the world and the characters. I wait to get bored and if I don't get bored- then I start building on them.

When you are going through a bad patch, you need to play more and more to regain your old form and touch.

To me, scoring goals was just like other boys might regard delivering papers. I just did it - every day.

I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.

I have no regard for people who say, 'I can't.'