Quotes About Persistence

Nothing happens overnight in this game.

I think people know that I've got things in my mind that I want to do and things I wanted to change in time. I can't do it all overnight.

Fame doesn't come overnight.

When you start off as a dancer, you don't become one overnight; you must train for more than a decade.

I think people think how I got work came easy. People assume that I was an overnight sensation, because they're just now hearing about me, or that everything happened very quickly.

You want to raise good kids, but it doesn't happen in one day. You want to be a great fighter, but it doesn't happen overnight. It takes time.

Evergreen songs are not made overnight. They are cultivated and nurtured and born out of creative conflicts.

I am not in a hurry, I don't want to become a star overnight.

It's so funny, this thing of 'overnight success.' I've been doing this for 20 years, but yes, sure, it happened overnight!

I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?

Things that are like overnight success things don't last long, and that's not something I wanted.

I want people to know that I am not an overnight success, if only to encourage the people who don't feel that they are being successful.

It's definitely not an overnight success. There has been a lot of work, effort and concentration to get where I am now. I've gone through different experiences, good and tough, to mould me into the player I am now.

My sister was cute, she said, 'Oh my gosh, you're an overnight success.' 'Oh,' I said, 'this is the longest night.' I've been at it since 1982.

It took me 30 years for people to consider me an overnight success.

There's no such thing as an overnight success.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

You know, it's nice being an overnight success after 50 years.

I was a 17-year overnight success really. I think I earned it.

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

No team wanted me. No overseas team. Not even a D-League team.

You can't let every bad thing that happens to you in your life overtake you.