Quotes About Persistence

I started off doing street team work for No Limit and Def Jam. I was the waterboy, the scrub. I was passing out demo tapes, and nobody wanted to hear them.

One World Championship is not enough. Probably eight is not enough. I've set a target of 10 and I'd like between eight and 10.

107 caps isn't bad for someone who isn't 'a top, top player', is it? I never expected to get that amount of caps. When I made my debut, I set myself the personal target of trying to get 50 caps and score 10 goals if I could. So to have 107 is something I am really proud of, particularly being among those names.

I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.

I'm very ambitious. I always want more after I get something I've dreamed about, so every day, I have a new target and a new path to follow. That's pretty much my law in life.

You can't give up. If you set yourself a target, you've got to keep on until you achieve it. It's a matter of having pride in yourself.

My target has always been world No.1, I want that.

I've been targeted since I was 17, 18, 19.

What is clear is that stalking can happen to anyone. Doctors are targeted by patients, people in the public eye are watched by obsessed fans, and ex-wives are followed by former husbands.

I've always targeted that number eight spot.

I love practising, ever since I was that kid in the field, but I don't set targets for each session or anything.

I will continue to fight to reach my targets with humility.

You just never give up. You do a task to the best of your abilities and beyond.

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is almost an impossible task.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

Right from my childhood, whenever I have taken up a task, I have been an achiever.

I hope I have a long future here with Everton. It is a daily task to improve.

I feel filmmaking is not an easy task. People make films but sometimes they are not able to release it.

I'm a grinder. I've been grinding my whole life. Whatever task is in front of me, I'm going to try to accomplish it.

You give your all to the task and hopefully that's enough but sometimes things get taken out of your hands and one way or another you have to accept it and get on with it and focus on the task at hand.

All you can do is focus on the task at hand and if you keep doing that it will get you through.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

Sometimes the simplest tasks are so incredibly challenging but everyday I try and I make choices to push myself further than I could ever imagine.