Quotes About Persistence

I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.

I didn't know much. It wasn't possible to buy a book about Nurmi, but I found out that in order to be faster over 10,000m, he ran 5,000m many times in training. And to be better at 5,000m, he ran 1,500m many times. And to be better at 1,500m, he ran four times 400m in training.

I started training judo when I was 5 years old. I didn't know much. My mom just took me and my brother to do some judo because we were very energetic. We did that for a couple of years. I don't know why we stopped, but I came back to try other forms of martial arts like kung fu and karate when I was 12 and never stopped.

Besides training, you need to be focused and not shy away from hard work.

The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

It really has been just take it one day a time, one fight at a time, one training camp at a time, one year at a time.

We are extending basic training. It'll be the longest and toughest in the world.

During COVID, I was still training, working on my fitness and my tennis. I was able to practice and play near where I live in Orlando.

I'm all about getting the training. Don't roll out of bed and say, 'I can do this.'

Melody is my strength and it requires a lot of hard work, proper training and guidance for singing such songs.

My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the first two years of Spanx.

Every day we need to get better, on the training ground and when we play. It takes time.

What you don't realise when you get injured for a long period of time is that it's so hard to get back. You see the lads out on the training ground and you're in every day - 8 to 5 - and it's horrendous. So when you actually come back it's a proud moment.

I train every day but Christmas. I'm not the guy who gets a contract signed and then trains for a fight. I'm at practice every single day, whether I've got a match or not.

Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success.

People can say what they want. But I'm the one who goes out there and trains every day as hard as I can.

Morata trains to the maximum.

Pushing through when times get difficult, perseverance. It's an important trait to have as an athlete, and as a human being in general.

The mental focus it takes to compete against the best players in the world is not easy to maintain. Developing mental toughness is a learned trait, and if you can't develop it in your pursuit of success, you likely won't last in any competitive line of work for more than a cup of coffee.

The compulsive, obsessive, high-end, achieving people, those are the ones that keep pushing harder. I'll name you the greatest players I ever coached, and every one of them have that same trait.

I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.

If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.

Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.

After making repeated attempts to change my career trajectory and having those efforts turned down, my passion for playing the role of a WWE Superstar went away.