Quotes About Perseverance

It can be a grind, training and fighting and waiting for your chance. But when that opportunity presents itself, you have to be ready because you never know if or when you'll get another shot.

If so and so would have given me the right opportunity, or if this person would have encouraged me - I could have made a million excuses on why I wasn't playing in the NFL. You have no more excuses... what do you do from now until your opportunity presents itself? It's all up to you.

My grandmother adopted me for a while, and I was bouncing around a bit. I was always helped by the PTA and church groups with food and Christmas presents. It's a hard cycle to break, because when you don't have the resources, it's almost impossible.

Out of the west came Lincoln, and all that he had he gave to the preservation of the Union that had been bought so dearly and was falling to pieces.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

I've experienced it with Chelsea Women: it can be very hard at the top for long periods of time, fighting just to stay in the same position and to preserve an unbeaten run that will always come to an end.

I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom.

During the years of my presidency, I lived a tough and difficult life.

It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of heart.

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

We need to work as hard as President Trump is working.

I've done it 30 years. I don't know what there is to gain by doing it 40. But I think there is something about doing it over that length of time that says something. That's seven U.S. presidents and five presidents of McDonald's.

Great presidents don't just fight good fights - they win them.

I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

We did a lot of press for the last film and now for this one. We don't rest on our laurels.

Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.

I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.

I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

It's hard when you get down. You start pressing a little bit trying to get back in the game.

I try to show up and do my job and get my work in every day, keep pressing forward.

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.