Quotes About Perseverance

It wasn't like I was clinically depressed, but I was so down. I think I was probably depressed. Nothing went my way since college, and I put my head down and kind of pitied myself. That wasn't the right way to go.

It is good to get goals, but it is quite depressing if we don't win.

Being out of work is very depressing. But luckily I haven't been there for a long time.

There were very depressing days when the whole year everyone was working, and you were sitting at home because half of the people weren't giving you work and then there were some who didn't like you.

It's kind of depressing. A double relegation is something a few of us have - and we don't want it on our CV's.

Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.

I'm what you call a Depression sailor.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

In the Depression especially, I think you learn to face problems and not run away from them.

Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life.

Almost everyone I know is battling something, whether it's allergies or depression. Whatever it is, it makes you feel less than who you are. I believe part of life's challenge is to work through that.

I don't think you fully get away from something like the years of depression that I went through.

There were times in my early 20s where I dealt with some anxiety and depression issues. At that time, it just feels like you're under the water, and you can't get out.

I was able to battle back through depression.

Snooker lifted me out of depression.

Over the years, I am very lucky that I didn't submerge into a form of depression, because football saved my life really.

I feel for everybody that goes through it because depression is real, and it doesn't take much to put you in that state of mind to where you think everybody's against you, you're up against the world and that's not true.

The depression happened more so because when I was a little kid, I wanted to be a doctor. My heart was like, I want to save the world, I want to help people... But when I felt like nothing I was doing was right, that's the way I felt.

I did two years of walking the street and soul-searching. During that time I lived off $37.50 a week - that was $2.50 a week more than my Dad made during the Depression.

I don't feel deprived in not completing my artistic endeavors.

We in New York were very poor in the depths of the Depression - but I must say, that was the best time of my life.

Yeah, I did roller derby for three years.

Success won't descend on you. You have to earn it.