Quotes About Persistence

It's a lot of hard work, competing and not giving up. I think you get more appreciated the older you get.

It would be really easy to get discouraged over gun safety, and I have to explain all the time why I am not giving up and why people should not give up.

I eat healthily and exercise, and I'm not giving up and saying I'm too old - I'm just determined to keep on marching with enthusiasm and interest and curiosity.

I have had it all over the years, being told I'm not good enough. So whenever the chance comes I always try and prove I should be starting.

There comes a time when coming off the bench just doesn't cut it anymore, it's not enough time and it's not good enough.

What you put in, you usually get out. If you are not good enough on the day, fine, but if you put in everything you have, you usually get a decent result. When you lose, it motivates you to go again, not dwell on the past.

That's something that drives me on - wanting to prove people wrong. Because the amount of people who have told me, 'no, you're not good enough.' A lot of people fall at that hurdle. But I just kept getting up and looking for that one person who said yes.

I'm not interested in how long I can hold out, but in how fast I can reach the finishing line.

It's extremely tough, going day-to-day, not knowing really what you're working for, but for me, I just learned how to set small goals for myself.

You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.

It would be fair to say that the start of my life in Manchester was not perfect, but there have been many other times when I've had setbacks, and I have never given up.

I'm not perfect, but I do my best.

We are, you know, not perfect. We live every day day-by-day, and we do the best to make our mom proud.

I'm not perfect, I'm not brilliant at everything, I just try my best and I enjoy crafting. If I have something old or broken and I can use it for something else, I get a real joy out of it.

Arsene Wenger gave me the belief to keep working and competing. He was not talking to me every day, 'I believe in you,' but it was every now and again. The right amount.

Whatever you think rigor looks like, you should go up a few notches.

As long as I can sing and hit the notes, I want to do that.

I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.

Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.

I have no limits. There is no 'No' in my dictionary; nothing is impossible for me.

Nothing is impossible. Lassana Diarra did not play for France for five years and then returned.

Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been doing it for years. It takes something - guts, gumption, self-delusion - to ask for a reader's time when we all know there's nothing new under the sun; that it's all been said, or written, before.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

I just knew that I was funny, and I knew that it was just a matter of time. I didn't know what was going to actually happen - this is definitely way bigger than I thought - but I knew there was no way I was going to be that funny, and nobody was going to notice it.