Quotes About Persistence

I want to conquer everything that I do.

When I'm afraid of something, I'm going at it twice as hard. I don't believe any fear can be conquered by avoiding it.

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.

I feel like I'm a conqueror. That's what I do. I conquer things.

I like to surround myself with people that have dreams and that fight for them every day.

If you're in the middle of a field, surrounded by armies, left right and centre, you can't just say: 'I've had enough now, sorry.'

I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the odds of a tough childhood, who worked hard, who didn't let his surroundings get the best of him and lead him to jail or the graveyard. Where I ended up - being a comedian, a TV star, and a movie actor - might be unique, but my story is not.

Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.

Success is survival.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

Entrepreneurship is like a computer game in which you have to master every level before achieving success. Startups repeatedly stumble and have to go back to the drawing board. The best way to skip some levels and to increase the odds of survival is to learn from others who have already played the game.

I've always believed in survival.

The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.

I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.

If something happens and you're behind, and you get hit in the mouth early like that, you have two options: You can either pack it in mentally and internally and go into survival mode and quit, or you're going to get up and go to work.

I'm absolutely an amoeba. It's my survival value.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.

We all survive more than we think we can.

Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.

I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.

Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different.

I survived on sandwiches, and I was on stage every night for six years of my life. I was working 16 hours a day between class, rehearsal, being on stage.