Quotes About Perseverance

I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer.

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

When I joined an all-boys baseball team, my mom wasn't too happy. I proved to her (and to me) that I could do anything I set my mind to.

My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.

Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.

My mom knows what it's like to keep a dirt floor clean.

I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen.

Dad: Honey, have you seen my glasses? I can"t find them. Mom: I haven't seen them. Calvin: (with glasses, to Dad) Calvin, go do something you hate! Being miserable builds character!

My parents were workers. My mom, especially in my high school years, was a stock clerk at Kmart... My dad was a bartender that worked banquets.

I didn't have a stage mom at all. I was the one who planned out my auditions and drove myself an hour and a half into the city.

Years ago we hardly had anything to eat. Now I earn more money and I see every opponent as a man that tries to put me back to that poorer period. That man has to be eliminated.

Some people chase money. Some people chase fame. Some chase greatness - and that's what I'm trying to do.

I don't even have money for a cheeseburger!

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee

It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses.

It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!