Quotes About Perseverance

When I was 20 and ran my first race, I told myself I don't know how I'm going to do this for a living. I don't have the money to do it. But it is what I want to do.

Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.

I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning $10 a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.

Never say never. For the right reason, over the years I've been auctioning off masks for charity and it's always for a good cause. I think you would regret it if you just sold it for money.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with no money. I was taught not to take anything for granted. If you are too busy being a diva or a freak, then you are not enjoying it.

I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

I look back on my life and it's 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It's no way to live.

If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.

For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.