Quotes About Perseverance

When I realized that people actually wrote comics, that it was a job people could do, I thought, 'Gee, these things are only 17 pages long! I could probably finish one of those and find out whether I suck before I've spent five years of my life on it.' In stumbling into comics that way, I discovered that I loved the form.

I tried snowboarding before, and I suck at it.

Some shows suck, but I always - the show must go on. I learned it from my past as a child actor. The show must go on. You have to just keep on with it.

You're not just top-10 UFC because you suck.

Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.

Allowing yourself to suck is the hard part of writing music. If you allow yourself to suck, you will probably write something better.

People always want to grab the negative, but that's not my reality. It comes from my dad. He cracks me up the way he always says, 'Suck it up and be a big girl,' to my sister, or 'Suck it up and be a man,' to us guys. That's what I'm about.

I think just that dog inside of you. When things suck, just to still fight.

Going from toting a machine gun in Afghanistan... to using a bed pan, and I can't even put my own socks on - that was hard to kind of suck it up.

I haven't had to deal with many negative things in my career. Now, I see, 'You suck. You lost to Tito.'

I just assume a lot of people hate me. You just have to suck it up.

It was not even that long ago when my acting career was in the gutter. I was just thinking that I didn't want to live a life still going on auditions and not getting work. I wasn't inspired or anything at the time, and it sucked.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

The album 'Kelis Was Here' sucked the life out of me, and so I went off and studied to be a Cordon Bleu chef. What's great about food is that it's less about who you know and what you look like, and more about if you're any good.

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

I sucked in school.

I've always been in good shape. I just sucked early in my career from a statistical perspective.

My whole life, I thought I sucked. And then I get in here, and I grapple other people, and I'm like, 'I'm actually good.'

My biggest challenge was when I had my first panic attack at 27. It's not something you can ignore, you can't sit around and get sucked into a rabbit hole.

That's the worst part about all of the injuries and the criticism. It would be one thing if I had been healthy for five years and just sucked when I was on the court. But I can't prove what I can do because I can't stay healthy. Not having control over the situation makes it tough.

I think people might say I'm a bit of a sucker for punishment.

I couldn't hit a home run to save my life, and I was a sucker for the curveball.

Please don't stick with me if I start sucking.

Talk about the area of overcoming adversity, sucking it up, I rate myself a 10.