Quotes About Perseverance

If you're out there, and you can't do it, that makes you a bust. Well, I was never really out there. I was never Greg Oden in the NBA.

If someone has your arms around you, I'm not going to sit there and be like, 'OK, this is fine.' I'm going to try to bust out of it and get in position to score a goal.

My first WPS season was a bust.

I wanted to show people that I'm not a bust. I can play. I can do this.

In one week, I got hit by a car - it busted through my hand - and my mom got cancer.

We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind!

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.

I just always wanted to stay busy.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despite all my efforts, I had not succeeded in acquiring in Poland a preparation as complete as that of the French students following the same course.

I've failed way more than I've succeeded.

In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.

If I had the opportunity to speak to a young immigrant girl that just arrived to the U.S. the advice I would have for her would be: ask, speak, search; because there are opportunities out there. And, know that you aren't the only immigrant or the last to come to this country. Many that have come before you have succeeded. It is possible.

If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.

Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.

Everyone who has succeeded in correcting their wrong should have the right to work.

If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.

My favorite memory is my five years with the Nuggets. From my first day to my last day is a great memory. There wasn't a year that I was a Nugget that I didn't think we succeeded.

I think I've succeeded more by learning what needed to be done next and getting help in getting it done. I was just very focused and impatient.

Trump bankrupted six companies but succeeded on the biggest of stages. He is the champion of failures.

I would say that regardless of how the brand has been created, we are four hard-working women who have succeeded in making our dream to become artists a more possible reality through this.

I have succeeded at times and failed at others, but I am here to do good cinema.

Winning a championship, really - that's the main goal, so if you don't do that then you can't really say that you succeeded.

Destiny wasn't on the side of Rajiv Kapoor. Worse actors than him have succeeded in this industry.