Quotes About Perseverance

The day you feel like you've won, you need to drive out of the parking lot and not come back.

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.

When I started my career, we were running around water parks and ridiculous things like that. You used to drive in dreading pre-season back then, but now you know it's going to be pretty tough, but it's going to be probably what you need. It's going to be good for you instead of just slogging away.

When I go in and talk to students about being a Member of Parliament, I say to them it took me 21 years from joining the Conservative Party as a 16-year-old to being elected as a Member of Parliament for the first time in Loughborough. It's a long journey, but the rewards when you get there, the feeling of accomplishment is huge.

People overcoming the odds is actually a really important part of humanity, and I don't think we kind of get to celebrate that as much as we should.

To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.

You have got to get to know people, and moving down to Liverpool from the North East was a huge change for me. But, at the same time, you have just got to get on with it, and that is part and parcel of being a footballer.

Pressure is part and parcel of our career.

You know what, man, that's part and parcel of being a black person in this country: everything's harder. It just is.

I've had injuries that have hampered my career but that is part and parcel of being a footballer. You just have to bounce back and remain focused.

Struggle has been a part and parcel of my life.

I've experienced it a few times at club level, when a manager goes. It doesn't become any easier, but it's part and parcel.

I would have liked to have played more but injuries are part and parcel of football and you've got to shoulder it, got to take it on and get on with it.

I was working part-time as a cleaner while I was going to college and then babysitting after school.

You cannot be a part-time candidate when you're running against Orrin Hatch.

I started work at 13, had three or four part-time jobs, and learnt very quickly the values of work.

For fifty years, I was a part-time model, but basically, I'm a nutritionist, a teacher, a mother.

I worked part-time cleaning houses, and went to school full-time.

I had it on my mind that I will fight in Cologne, because UFC is coming to Germany, where the biggest and largest Croatian community lives there. It was my big, big, big wish to participate. Even my doctor didn't believe I will make it, but I did.

I don't want to be in this sport just to participate. I want to be in this to win, and that's what motivates me every day to break down barriers and to get better every time and to exceed my limits and to win fights.

When I grew up, the idea that I had to be the best at everything I do was put in my head by my mother. This is just how I am. I'm not just here participating.

I'm making it up as I go along, like everyone else. There probably are some actors who are quite methodical or at least take their time about what particular footholds to find on the rocks next. There are always choices, even when you're not getting seen, for how to spend your time. It's only after 10 years that I got any kind of traction at all.

25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.

I've never been particularly aware of my age. It's like being on a bicycle - I just put my foot down and keep going.