Quotes About Perseverance

I started out as a farm girl in Iowa, and I dreamed of being an astronaut and an explorer. And I made it.

I have spent my life reassembling the family farm.

Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be one.

I look at myself like a farmer, harvesting my wares and taking them to the market, and then I go back and do it again.

I gave up everything and nearly became a farmer, walking around in headscarf and wellies for 10 years to find my confidence again.

One of my big goals for 2019 is to make the cut at the Farmers.

Life for my family was a real struggle, as it was for most in those farming communities in Alabama.

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

My dad gives me goals, and then I kind of go even farther beyond those.

I'm fascinated by characters who are faced with big losses and have to put their lives back together again.

I have always been fascinated by entrepreneurship.

I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.

I would love to be a fashion designer but that's easier said than done.

Business is tough, and the fashion industry is particularly tough.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

You can always get bigger, faster, stronger. I don't have any choice. I have to.

You know me, I go higher, faster, larger, as long as I can.

The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.

You can have someone younger, faster, but if you have got that experience and that ring craft, you can do anything in that ring.

Lyrics are really, really hard, I think, or at least they're really hard for me. Some people can channel lyrics faster. I find them very hard to find, so because of it, they take me a long time, and I really think about them.

I got over the transverse myelitis stuff; I'm walking great, and I'm playing faster; I mean, I'm just playing all the time. I have to, just as exercise.

There were times I didn't know if I even belonged in the NBA. Everyone at this level is so good - bigger, stronger, faster.

Knowing some guys are way bigger than you, way faster than you, you have to find other ways to do what you want to do.