Quotes About Persistence

Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of hating what you're going through, maybe bless it because for some reason; it is going to build you into that person that you are proud of being.

You're either in it for the long haul or you're not.

I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.

It's been a long haul. It may seem to some people that have never heard of me, 'Oh she just popped up on the scene,' but I've been working on this for some time.

We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.

Whenever I've gone out there, like every batsman wants to get a hundred, my aim is to get a five-wicket haul.

Even though I will never be evicted again, I am haunted by those times and still work relentlessly.

When I did 'Wichita Lineman,' it was as good as I could do it, so I keep doing it that way. It's such a haunting song.

I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.

I get to do what I love every day, and I've got a great group of people around me that I have fun with. And working out is something I'll do for the rest of my life, so I might as well try to be as good at it while I can.

I now need to take a very aggressive approach to having a baby.

Even after having children, after five months I was dancing again, which was kind of crazy.

For me, 'Resurrected' is just like I'm saying, 'I'm still here; I'm still having fun, and I'm still going.'

I didn't put a date on what's left in my career. I didn't say by the time I'm 46, or 47, or 48, or by the time I've been in wrestling for 25 years or 26. I just said I was going to keep doing it as long as I could, and as long as I was still having fun.

If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.

Either you face the challenges in life head on or back out. And I am not someone to back out from challenges.

I am continuing to do lead roles and that is where I am actually headed, but doing cameos is also a fun experience.

Heading out to L.A., doing this acting thing. You can't rest on your laurels out there. You finish a film, you don't know how it's going to do. You're talking about that next job, usually.

I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.

Some people never learn, no matter how much their heads hurt in the morning.

I'm always altering things to try and get better. It's not always about the darts too, I'm trying to eat healthier and look after myself, I even bought a dog to walk.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

It is extremely hard to break bad habits and takes a long time to start new, healthy ones.

It's pretty funny to me when I hear people say, 'I write six songs every day,' or, 'I turn out a song a day.' I bet you that's a whole week of bad songs.