Quotes About Perseverance

I retired because I had to, not because I wanted to. The temptation to get back in the ring is very much there.

The body doesn't accept the lack of food, and it suffers from the temptation of food and from other aspects which gnaw at it perpetually. The body fights back sure enough, but at the end of the day, everything returns to the primary consideration - that is, the mind.

There has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer.

I struggle just like everybody else struggles. It's always a struggle in life to overcome temptation. I just try and get through it. No one is perfect.

The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.

'Honey, I'm Good' is a song about temptation, and we wanted to show what is possible if you can beat it.

It can be a great temptation to rest on the field and let the opponent have a play without making him pay for every inch.

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding.

I know that each of us has much to do. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by the tasks we face. But if we keep our priorities in order, we can accomplish all that we should. We can endure to the end regardless of temptations, problems, and challenges.

The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it's very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence.

It's very tempting for certain generations to say, 'Well, I just want to be in a band, and I want to be a rock star,' or whatever. That's not what it's about. Firstly, you've got to be in it for the love and the passion that you have for the music, and then you take it from there.

Apparently I have 12 league games to go to get 1,500 and that is really tempting to me.

Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.

Ten days before I started my job at ABC News, I checked myself into a mental health hospital.

As a kid, I loved Air Force Ones - but they were so expensive. I always had to save up for ages to get them. Now I can call the Nike guy and be like 'can you send me ten pairs?' and they'll be here the same day.

I only finish probably one out of every ten things I start. I give up all the time.

There are some people who are naturally talented, who just have it coming out of their ears; they just sparkle with talent. Some people - and I put myself in this category - don't fit a mould. I always looked a lot older. I was as tall as a giraffe, even at ten, but I found my place, and I really worked at it.

If they didn't have ten fights a night, it was a bad night.

You just realize that at the beginning of 'Scooby' you're just going to start at level ten and stay at ten the entire time. It's hard. It physically beats you up. It's definitely one of the hardest movies you can do.

I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.

We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.

I have ten marathons under my belt, including four New York races and one Boston.