Quotes About Perseverance

Passage Vero-Dodat - I started my company on this passage. It feels as much home as it can!

KIN' is basically a kind of rite of passage, scars-and-all celebration of going through difficult things in your life and being better for it.

Some stories or passages are more difficult and demand more fussing with than others, but, in general, I'm a two-draft writer rather than a six-draft writer, or whatever.

Well, writing for me had always been my first love and what I leaned on as a way to kind of endure difficult passages.

I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.

My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.

At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers and news directors who passed on me when I was trying to get a job back in the business.

Working with Roshni gives me lot of confidence. When I started SSN - in 1994, after a windfall gain from HCL-HP then - I was OK to do it alone. My brother, who was supposed to head it, passed away. We had a governing council to run it. That was a leap of faith, and we didn't know where we will get.

Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style has passed and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on.

I tried to kickbox once right after I had my first baby, and I was so miserable; it was so hard. And I went home, and I passed out for three hours because it's so hard.

When my husband Charles passed away in 2000, I took over as chair of our family's foundation. As I was mourning his loss, I also had to keep the foundation moving forward and to chart a course into what was then a very male-dominated philanthropic world.

I have passed all the physical hardships known to man.

People have to remember this - I've literally been going at this music thing since my mother passed away.

It was tough to make weight against Cerrone, and I passed out three times making weight for the Eddie Alvarez fight. One day you get to the limit.

I've taken legislation that people have been trying to pass for 10 or 15 years, and I got it passed.

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

We know that if you have a good game, you are God, and if you misplace five passes in a row, they want to kick you out of Madrid. You have to find the middle ground.

Sometimes my passes don't find people, but I do try and create.

I still have downs and get depressed, but I try not to dwell too much on being negative because it always passes and there is still so much to do.

It's obvious that I want to reach Cerrone's win record, I know that's important for my career. Those milestones last forever, even if someone passes you later, they are forever.

Obviously I'm not happy when I miss the passes so I look to get that right. I work very hard on that.

I was a procrastinator and a bookworm but I passed all my School Certificate exams, the equivalent of O-levels; I got three distinctions, three honours and three good passes.

If we can't get a shot after five passes, what's Ihe use of trying to set up a shot at all?

When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'