Quotes About Persistence

Being able to overcome obstacles and to demand the most out of yourself is a quality that everyone needs to be successful.

I don't ever remember overcoming adversities.

I love people who succeed in life overcoming various odds.

'Kimmy' first and foremost is a show about a woman overcoming the odds. I think that they write the show in a way that you're not beaten over the head with it, but showing and not telling. I think that's really powerful.

All my life, I believe in overcoming challenges.

If you look at my career it has always been about overcoming difficulties in different places.

If you watch closely a highlight of my fights, you will see armbars and everything. But if you really watch, what you'll see most of all is me getting back up. The power of getting back up. And to try again. It's all about overcoming.

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'

Nothing happened overnight. Every country we went into, we started at the bottom. We knew that because the music we were playing and the attitude we had, we knew we'd be at the bottom and have to work our way up.

I think people have this sort of idea that 'Sex and the City' was this overnight sensation, and that can't be farther from the truth.

You don't just become a success overnight.

Look at my success. I didn't achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years' struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.

No one's an overnight sensation unless you're Batman.

Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.

I always describe my career as something where nothing ever popped overnight.

One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

Marathons don't come to you overnight.

Almost nobody gets rich or erudite overnight.

Change won't happen overnight.

People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.

I know there are no sure bets or overnight miracles.

We knew when we started we wouldn't be accepted overnight, that it was going to be a long haul.

You don't just forget things overnight.