Quotes About Persistence

No one understood why I would wanna be behind the camera, not in front of the camera, and so no one took me seriously, and people said, 'Oh, well, this is just a hobby isn't it?' and I said, 'No, I really love this. I wanna make this my career,' and I did not have a lot of support at all for many years. People just kind of thought it was a joke.

My whole thing is if you want to do it, then do it. Kobe told me this, but he said, 'You don't wanna lay all your eggs in one basket, but you wanna lay all your eggs in one basket.' If you wanna do something and be great at it, that's what you're going to have to specialize in. Just take it and run.

If you didn't want to believe in me, that's OK, because I'll make a believer out of you.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

Life is hard enough. Life is always going to be hard, so you need to push for what you want.

Discipline is doing what you really don't want to do so you can do what you really want to do.

If you want to be successful, you need consistency and if you don't have it, you've got no chance.

If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can't have it, you just go and get it.

I want to play football until my body says, 'You can't run anymore: you're dead.'

Everything you want is on the other side of hard.

There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.

We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.

You want to get to the top of the cliff. But that's not what you focus on immediately. You focus on the next ledge just beyond your reach, because you need to do one clever thing to get up there. And then, once you get there, you do it again. A lot of this is rather boring and not very glamorous. But you can't jump cliffs in a single bound.

I want to keep doing what I'm doing and see how far I can go. See when it stops. See what the end is like. I want to make this moment last as long as I can make it. If I miss a day, I'm afraid I'll miss out on a smash record.

The nice thing about 'Samson & Delilah' is that the team behind it are real hustlers - they really want it to happen.

I always knew I wanted to be a chef.

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

Everyone has their own path in life, no matter if it's being a celebrity or a singer. Quite frankly, I didn't move to Nashville and tell myself I wanted to be a singer because I wanted to be a celebrity or I wanted to be somebody that people admired. I wasn't about that. I just loved music.

I wanted to be a cartoonist, but there was no cartoon academy. So I enrolled in the Royal Danish Art Academy School of Architecture. But then I really got smitten by architecture.

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

Either you give in, or you fight. That's all I know, being where I'm from. You fight for what you want. You go after what you want. The only thing I could do was give up or keep fighting for what I wanted in life.

I never wanted to let go of the opportunity, and so I hit upon 'VIP 2'.

I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.