Quotes About Perseverance

There is never going to be an end point. But definitely, I am happy to complete a certain part of my journey, and that's something I want to celebrate.

If you want to be the best, you've got the beat the best, and the best is 'Blessed,' baby.

I play a lot of cricket. I just want to play, play, and play.

From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last chance.

You want to get to the top of the cliff. But that's not what you focus on immediately. You focus on the next ledge just beyond your reach, because you need to do one clever thing to get up there. And then, once you get there, you do it again. A lot of this is rather boring and not very glamorous. But you can't jump cliffs in a single bound.

I want people to see that there are happy endings, that we do achieve our goals, that it's never too late.

I want to keep doing what I'm doing and see how far I can go. See when it stops. See what the end is like. I want to make this moment last as long as I can make it. If I miss a day, I'm afraid I'll miss out on a smash record.

The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.

I'd be stupid not to take into consideration that there are certain things people will not consider me for because my name is Lopez. And I know I can do any kind of role. I don't want anybody to say, Oh, she can't pull this off. So those are barriers that you have to overcome.

It doesn't matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

The nice thing about 'Samson & Delilah' is that the team behind it are real hustlers - they really want it to happen.

I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.

Even at my lowest point, when I've wanted to give up, I know that I have to believe in myself because I'm all that I have.

Who would have thought it would be possible to run across Canada on one leg, eh? I wanted to try the impossible and show that it could be done.

I just wanted to keep getting better and better and better, and that's just my mindset.

I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.

To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always wanted to do, then commit himself to making that dream come true.

I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I was left without a home.

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

If I wanted to play soccer, I'd step out on that soccer field like I'm the best soccer player. Even though I don't have that much experience, I always try to have that type of confidence in myself just to make people believe it.

Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted... but I had that hunger for more. I didn't always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes.

I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.

Either you give in, or you fight. That's all I know, being where I'm from. You fight for what you want. You go after what you want. The only thing I could do was give up or keep fighting for what I wanted in life.

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.