Quotes About Persistence

I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.

Pretty much everybody we know in Glasgow who's in a band has another job. All of us have worked in bars, cafes, or cinemas. It means you can afford to do the thing you love.

I grew up in a family where the thing that was valued most was being a hard worker, and if you commit to something, you follow through.

I am a hard worker who looks to give everything.

I'm a slow worker; I'm, I think, a steady worker.

I definitely have the eye of the tiger. I've fought my way to where I am and will continue to do so. I'm a hard worker - I get it from my family. We only know work. Nothing was handed to us. When I believe in something, I go after it. It's very hard to tell me 'no.'

I'm a worker, I'm someone who loves getting better and embraces the grind.

If you're looking for longevity, you have to be a hard worker.

I'm an incredibly hard worker, I'm incredibly tenacious, and I'm incredibly detail-oriented.

I am a hard worker, and there's nothing wrong with my motor.

I feel like I've always been a hard worker - working too much on things that I don't need to work on. Nothing's ever going to be perfect, but I still feel like there's this attainable perfection, which doesn't exist.

My entire career, I've been a worker.

I think that among my friends I'm known as being a hard worker; I think if you want to be an actor, there can't be any compromise. You have to work all day, every day. It's not a 9-5 job. There's always something to learn.

I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.

Whether you're working in corporate America or you're a journalist, construction worker, a teacher or an actor - we're all trying to keep working. If one job is ending, you look for another job. When 'Psych' ends, I will be looking for another job.

Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.

What I've learned is you don't have to strive for perfection, but you do have to strive to be a very hard worker.

Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time.

I was a hard worker.

I'm just a hard worker, and I think that you don't need to have age to be a hard worker.

I was a sheet metal worker, then a metal engineer, then a Pontin's bluecoat, then a comedian. You can achieve anything you want if you put your mind to it.

Our dad was an iron worker, a really tough guy. He raised us to be strong and stand up for ourselves. Whatever we want, we go and get it. Sometimes, you have to take it.

I'm a worker. I'm a grinder.

I'm a very hard worker, and if I put my mind to something I see it through, no matter what.