Quotes About Persistence

Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

This is life right here. This is what happens. You get knocked down. You've got to step back up. How are you going to handle a loss? This is what Mojo Rawley is all about.

If I think something's funny, I try to mold it into a joke as soon as possible. Once I have a joke, I say it a million different ways on stage until I find a rhythm and it feels like it's as good as it can be.

My mom put me into dance classes, found out that I can't dance to save my life.

I'm going for the big moments - I want the big moments. I just tell myself, 'Remember the work you did, the things you went through. And keep going.'

There have been many moments over the last year when I thought it was all over.

There is so much work to working that there are moments, moments, where I stop and look around, and it seems too arduous to go on. It isn't, of course.

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.

My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.

The momentum that I had before winning the NXT Women's Championship was incredible. I was doing absolutely everything and anything.

I could have played in a lot of Monday qualifiers for PGA Tour events, which would have been fine as long as I was getting through. But Monday qualifiers can also be depressing if you are missing out time and again.

I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.

Monk's gone, and House is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off.

Being an actor is like being a monk: you have got to be dedicated.

I was about 29 or 30, and I started writing monologues for myself. I felt I got more immediate encouragement from that than I ever had in acting.

The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.

There was a movie I was trying to make right after 'Monster,' a bigger behemoth: the Chuck Yeager story. It was a life dream, but it just didn't line up. We just had issues with the life rights, ultimately.

Once, as my New Year's Resolution, I telephoned the Extenze Male Enhancement hotline every day for a month.

If I get a cold, it lasts for a month.

I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that.

I was working a full-time job but not having anything in my savings account at the end of the month because of my bills and because acting in the beginning costs money.

One of the things people think about me is that I don't do deadlines. But if you look at all the books I've ever done, they're all sequential every month. There might have been glitches along the way. But almost all of my books appeared sequentially.