Quotes About Perseverance

When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.

Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

I have had my share of flops and it's very discouraging. It's pathetic to be on that side.

In the 84 days after Beijing I had, on average, three things a day and one day off. I didn't sleep in the same bed for more than two nights in a row. It sounds a bit pathetic but it was exhausting - it was like really intensive training with no rest days.

When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.

At the end of the day, you go through different paths in the league. I wouldn't change anything about it.

Normally I'm the type who wouldn't bail on a responsibility unless dead on the side of the road, and I believe deeply in the importance of continuing to follow our own paths.

America is still the land of opportunity, and hard work is still a pathway to success.

For me, dropping down to League One and then getting into the Championship with Huddersfield was the right pathway. It was one where I knew I had to learn, I had to get better if I wanted to get any higher and I think that mentality's helped me.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Genius is patience.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

I'm constantly looking for ways to learn and elevate your craft, patience for yourself, and patience for this business. It's not a fair business. You may be great, but it may take years for someone to notice what you're capable of because of politics.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

I've said my patience is not infinite.

It costs to win, you need patience.

I have no patience at all.

Football has no patience.

With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.

I always say that with work and patience, if you believe in your own talent, at the end, things come back; there's no doubt about it.