Quotes About Perseverance

My goals in football helped make me disciplined and focused in all areas of my life.

I'm a disciplinarian. And I've always been disciplined. I like to be on time. If I have a job to do, I'm going to see it from its beginning to its conclusion. No excuses, no alibis. That's how I run my life. It's called self-tough love.

I am a disciplined person. When I am writing, I write for 7-8 hours.

I think I'm less disciplined than a lot of other people, I'm afraid, but on the other hand, I've written a lot of books.

I've always been pretty disciplined.

I'm not a disciplined person.

I grew up very disciplined and doing what I had to do.

You have to be disciplined if you want to be world class.

You have to be disciplined to resist what can lead you down a dark path.

To do things that are as complicated and challenging as spaceflight, you have to have all disciplines represented to get the job done.

Well, that's why ballet is one of the hardest disciplines - you kind of stay childlike, because you never really experience childhood, so you try to stay in that.

When I started writing songs at 18, I wrote about 100 that were crap. One was called 'Dog In A Disco.'

There is nothing you can tell me to discourage me.

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

It's funny that I love golf so much because I'm not usually drawn to things I'm not so good at. It's all about practice and working and not getting discouraged.

We all get discouraged.

I know when I get down and discouraged, it's hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

It is so discouraging to have your weight yo-yo.

I would say that 98 percent of the time you are not going to get the role you are going after. I think that can be very discouraging.

What you come to discover is, it isn't how you get there, it's that you get there. If that's what it took to get me where I'm at today, so be it.

Growing up, when I was younger, I didn't feel all that tough or smart or strong. As I got older, I was able to discover my own strength.

It's really amazing when you discover how strong you actually are and what you really can accomplish.

Reading 'Moby-Dick' helps you discover how to live.