Quotes About Perseverance

I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.

In Pakistan cricket, the real test comes when the team is not doing well. When it is winning, everything is fine.

I've definitely grown into the job after that difficult first Test against Pakistan. I'd been captain for the Sri Lanka one-dayers, which hadn't gone well, and all the talk was that I only had that one Test as captain.

Many Pakistani fans will say they have followed their team for too long and had their hearts broken many times, but I love them, and I love their cricket.

Luckily, Palace have had love for me from the beginning. It is the team I could fall back on.

Put your head down and work hard and you can achieve what you want. You can end up in Buckingham Palace.

I'm glad I came to Palace because I am getting the game time I wanted. I am also learning to fight with some good players.

It's hard to keep training at your best, but I made sure I did for when the time came, or when I did get opportunities like at Palace.

I'm a Palace player. I've not been told otherwise by anybody and until then you remain committed.

When I left Bristol City for Palace, I just wanted to be playing football. I didn't care about the money I was getting or anything. I just wanted to play because I've always been like that, that's just my character.

My husband saw me go through the 2008 campaign cycle. We did it together for Sarah Palin and John McCain. It ended disastrously, and afterward I really wanted to do something different, so I started writing novels, and I imagined a fictional female president in my head.

It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus, you see students drawn from all over the world - an astonishing number these days with roots in Asia - whose chief assets are brainpower and hard work.

Life is not decided by lines on a palm but by the power of the will, hard work and discipline.

I was a very ziddi kid. One Diwali, I was hell-bent on lighting an anaar on my palm, and it burst on my palm! It is not a great memory but I still remember that.

If I could palm a ball I probably could have more dunks than I have in my career, but I still can get the job done.

I haven't written a brochure yet. It's killing me. I know I have a brochure or pamphlet in me yet.

If I flop, let 'em pan me.

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.

I'm afraid of what happens if this career doesn't pan out, because I have so much invested in it that I can't turn back now.

One of the hazards of making a major discovery early in your career is the burden of expectation, not helped in my case by becoming a wife and mother soon afterwards. I'm sure some people think it was a flash in the pan.

I want to be around when I'm 60; I don't want to be some flash in the pan.

One never knows how a bout is going to pan out and even in last 2-3 seconds things can change.

Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.