Quotes About Persistence

I must refine my training every day to give myself the best opportunity to achieve my dreams during the Olympic Games in Rio.

My whole life, nothing was handed to me. I had to go out in the world and get it.

Being driven helps; if you look at any athlete or entertainer, they're all going to come to times where, if it's handed to you and it's easy, then it's not worth having, and it hasn't been easy.

Nobody in the footballing world got here by having it handed to them.

I'm a big fan of working for things. If everything was handed to me, I wouldn't appreciate it.

Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're not good ones. And then you'll follow through with a handful of them and sometimes you'll be pretty disappointed. And then other times you'll follow through and you'll go, 'You know what? It's nice to be right.'

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

People can be successful for a short period of time, but only a handful of people are successful for decades.

You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.

To have your films not liked or not watched or failed, is not an easy thing to handle.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

We've had to handle defeat many times, and you can't drawn any conclusions.

A lot of people out there get hounded about things that are going on in their lives. You just find ways to handle it and go on about your business.

You're going to be successful or you're not going to be successful. You have to handle success and not being successful in the same way.

The more crap you have had to deal with in your life, the better you are at handling 'Big Brother.'

Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it down.

Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.

If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.

It's going to take more than one loss for me to hang up my gloves; that's for sure.

Why stop now when I'm just getting the hang of it?

That may be a factor because we are the older show; we have been on the air for a while. Is it our day? Is it time to hang it up? But it seems that the show still continues, and we still enjoy being here. And that's a very important element.

I just try to hang in there and try to focus every point.

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

There's something about just hanging around when it comes to success on the Internet.