Quotes About Perseverance

But the funny thing is, I broke my finger not on set doing kung fu. I broke my finger when I fell down the stairs prior to going on set.

I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.

I don't want to take the escalators. Give me the stairs that have the dips and the two old ladies that are blocking it and they've got an attitude, and they don't want you to go past them.

When I was very young, my father had an accident. He fell down a flight of stairs, fractured his skull, and lost sight in one eye.

So many times I've gone flying. I've fallen in audience members' laps, I've fallen down the stairs, I've had a shoe fall off live.

God didn't design an elevator for me. It's great because I'm climbing stairs and learning with every step.

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

Obviously understand what's at stake, and keep going. You just have to keep going, keep playing.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

When you play a semi-final, it is impossible to be tired. You know how much is at stake.

My number one goal was to be the best fighter ever in the Octagon. I think I can hold hands with many who can stake that claim.

It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.

I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.

I'm always trying to make movies that are better than the ones that we've made before. We don't always succeed at doing that by any means, but we're always trying to raise the stakes, raise the bar, make the movies better, and that's hard.

I've found that entrepreneurship only gets harder every year, and as your team gets bigger, the stakes get higher.

Regardless of what the stakes are, our attitude and our mindset doesn't change.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

Projects you think are no-brainers stall, and other things see the light of day. You never count anything out.

We all dream about winning the Premier League. We all set our stall out to qualify and we worry about positions afterwards.

Leaving your old record label doesn't have to be a stall in your career. It's like new life being breathed into it.

Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.

I got the stamina. I can close.

I have stamina, and I have energy.