Quotes About Perseverance

Whatever the circumstances, my main task is always going to be just to win the game.

You couldn't ask for a harder task, trying to get picked ahead of Seamus Coleman.

I finished my university studies with classical music while being in a successful metal band, but that was not an easy task at all.

You give your all to the task and hopefully that's enough but sometimes things get taken out of your hands and one way or another you have to accept it and get on with it and focus on the task at hand.

Filmmaking is no easy task.

All you can do is focus on the task at hand and if you keep doing that it will get you through.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. By the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

Pretty much everyone's career starts the same way: with grunt work. Not just the cliched fetching of coffee, but other lowly tasks: taking notes in meetings, preparing paperwork, scheduling, intensive research - even flat-out doing our bosses' work for them.

I take on daunting tasks.

Sometimes the simplest tasks are so incredibly challenging but everyday I try and I make choices to push myself further than I could ever imagine.

Throughout my time working in restaurants, I developed an illogical dread of some basic kitchen tasks. None of them - picking and chopping parsley, peeling and mincing garlic, browning pans of ground meat - were particularly difficult. But at the scale required in a professional kitchen, they felt Sisyphean.

You get a taste of playing in the playoffs and what that's like, and it's a completely different world. You get a taste in those meaningful games. You get that taste, and you can't get it out. You want more.

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.

I will pursue my passion of cooking every day until my hands fall off and I lose all sense of smell and taste.

I'm willing to put my body on the line and stuff like that, just to get a taste of that greatness.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

The people who have done it - I have been in there - a lot of people love boxing but they have not actually been in there, and haven't tasted the bitterness of a beating.

I've tasted the dirt side. I've tasted being broke. I've been in the dumps, I've lived in motels as a kid. I want a different opportunity for my children. I never want them to see those things.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

I reluctantly soldiered on to the raccoon. It actually would have tasted quite good had I not had the image of a raccoon rummaging through the garbage stuck in my head.