Quotes About Perseverance

Discover your passion and do it to the best of your ability.

I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too.

I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.

Yeah, you can't discredit my come-up.

We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.

So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.

To support my brothers and me, my mother got a job so menial that we never discussed it.

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.

I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'

It's no disgrace to play against the world's champions and lose by one service break in the last two sets.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

I think all of us have enemies in disguise, but there is nothing much you can do about that. You have to live with it. I just do my own thing and let the enemies be.

Us players are supposed to dish it out for 90 minutes.

I always knew what I wanted but just got a little disillusioned for a while. It was so difficult to understand what my music is.

I left Brazil at 17 years old in order to give my family a better life, but when I returned home two years later, I was completely disillusioned with football.

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

As much as I disliked it, my brothers used to whoop me every day, but I have a feeling that I'm probably a stronger man today because of it.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.

Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.

What I have to do is train hard, be at the disposal of the coach and make the best of what I have here every day so when I'm called upon I'll be ready.

There's no disrespect in playing in the G League.