Quotes About Perseverance

I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.

There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.

Don't sit around and wait for the opportunities to come. You have to get up and make those opportunities come.

We all want to make money and have a good life. But if your passion is writing, and you want to write a novel, I don't think you should sit in your home and wait for someone to give you the opportunity. You write it.

Everything comes to those who wait... except a cat.

When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery.

There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring.

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

We have had a long wait for democracy.

In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that.

When I have the urge to get back to coaching, I lie down and wait until it passes.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.

So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

The years of imprisonment hardened me... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life... there is no longer anything I can fear.

Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.

I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.

I'm kinda mad that I had to wait 28 years to jump on a skateboard.

After school, I'd wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I'd be like, 'I guess I'll walk home.' I had to be a hustler, because nobody did anything for me.

I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.