Quotes About Perseverance

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

I can say that I don't see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it's been down for 16 years.

You can never take your foot off the gas pedal. You have to play the right way at both ends.

I always wanted to race but I never thought it would be possible. My dad put me in a cadet kart when I was seven years old and I wasn't strong enough to hit the brake pedal.

You can't take your foot off the pedal; you've got to get pucks to the next level.

Some people who come from high levels in other backgrounds where they're used to being the best or used to being on a kind of pedestal, it's hard to kind of lower yourself again and just be one of the grunts. I kind of enjoyed that challenge in MMA.

If you are successful, then it is only human that you are sometimes a bit saturated. You might also lose that hunger which means that others who are more ambitious will knock you off your pedestal.

In 2010, I put CrossFit on a pedestal and then, when I failed at it and got second, it was hard for me.

I don't put Jardine on a pedestal or worry about any kind of step-up. He's just another fighter standing in the way of me achieving my goal.

I know that I'm probably far more pedestrian and less talented than many who dreamed of becoming writers but couldn't see the road so easily.

Lucian Bute had the world title for five years, he made nine defenses and he's a good, good fighter. The fight before that, I beat Andre Dirrell, who comes from a good pedigree and is a hell of a southpaw. It just shows you the kind of fighter I am when I focus and do my job.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

There's always a little fear anytime you're doing something crazy because at any moment you can break a leg, land on your neck, or peel off the bar. Over the years, we've fallen so many times that we've kind of learned how to fall safely. Still, there is always a risk.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.

When you're from a boring town, you have to find things to do. It's funny: I always knew I wanted to make music, so I was always kind of ahead of my peers. I had an MP3 player by the time I was in the fourth grade.

I really empathise with some of my peers who had success in the early years; then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

At the University of Miami in the U.S., people thought I was there only because I was Bob Marley's son. I had to prove myself on the football field and soon earned the respect of my peers.

I want to be respected by my peers and do really great work, even if it gets panned, even if I get raked across the coals.

I'm no less focused than any of my peers. They live a different life. They go home; they are not pictured at events. I train just as much as them, maybe more.

I have been that actor who's watched peers and thought, 'God, they're doing well. I'll never get there.'

Recognize that the issues we face as women advancing in business are issues my grandmother would have loved to have had. And fight the good fight nonetheless. For yourself and your peers - but also for your daughter, when it's her turn.

As I was coming up, there was so much naysaying, there was so much doubt, whether it was from my peers or people in the industry.

I get what it feels like to watch some of your peers pass you in a field that you're in.