Quotes About Persistence

In the world today, the way the media is, you're going to have to endure a lot. The question is, can you endure it?

At the end of the day, our work is what endures.

At the start, when I got to nearly 12 years old, I actually nearly gave up football. I wasn't enjoying it.

Keep enjoying it, and if you do that, then you are going to get better.

If you are passionate about something, with hard work and opportunity, you will continue as long as you are enjoying what you do.

I'm enjoying playing. As long as that continues, I'll carry on playing as long as I can.

I've always striven to ensure that I work on one film at a time.

I started learning jiujitsu when I was eight years old. I had a lot of success and won ever competition I even entered.

I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46.

The entertainment industry is not always easy. I really needed to decide I can do this, and I will do this for the rest of my life.

I have gone into every project with the same enthusiasm and the same hope, but some have worked out, and some haven't.

Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

In his very first film, Mr. Gonzalez Inarritu makes the kind of journey some directors don't - or can't - travel in an entire career.

I'm not going to take up an acting class in order to get a fight. That is not what I've worked my entire life to do. It's not what I've been living for.

I started fighting in 1999, and was at the top 3 of the division until 2008. It's an entire life.

I've worked hard my entire life from the age of 14.

An entrepreneur never thinks of quarter-on-quarter; he thinks for 25 years, 50 years.

What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.

The thing most people don't pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It's 24/7.

When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.

As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.

We want everyone who comes through to feel more entrepreneurial and start companies, even if they fail.

You have to do stuff that you're actually incredibly passionate and excited about and you know something about. The 'oppor-tuneurs' don't do as well as the entrepreneurs.

You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.