Quotes About Perseverance

Obviously, there are nights in any job when you don't want to be there, but that's when the pride factor comes in.

You just go out there and try to do your best. Some days are great. Other nights, it's maybe not your day. It's the other guy's day.

I've been through enough competition in amateur wrestling my whole life to know that sometimes you have off nights and you don't perform and chalk it up to that and move on.

Beyonce was just always full-out. She's like a beast. So you learn that no matter how you feel, just do it. Just like Nike: 'Just Do It.'

I'm like Nike, just do it.

I wrote 'Legends of the Fall' in nine days, but I had been thinking about it for a few years.

I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.

When I was in desperate trouble for maybe eight or nine years, I went to a neuropsychiatrist.

When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

After floating for nine and a half months in space, gravity is not your friend.

I give 110% while I am working. I know I do, because I have been doing this since I was nine. This is a way of life for me. So whether it be successful or not is not in my hands. I still do my job, the best I can.

A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a crash course in reading. I was 32 years old, and I couldn't read the cue cards.

I auditioned nine times for 'Delhi Belly,' and it was torturous!

It was fun winning with the Nasty Nine, but it didn't feel good going into every game with the Nasty Nine, I tell you that.

Ever since I was maybe nine or 10 years old, I'd say, 'I'm gonna be an actor, and I'm gonna go to Julliard, and I'm gonna be in movies.' My parents never said, 'What's your backup plan?'

I played acoustic guitar so intensely, for so long - for nine hours a day as a 10-year-old, writing songs through the night, on tour constantly from when I was 19 - that I destroyed my arms and shoulders in the process.

Being injured for nine months, it felt like a breeze to me mentally - nothing was really too difficult.

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

Don't be hard on yourself! You just had a baby. It took nine months to get there, and I believe it takes nine months to get back. For me, I really watched what I ate and exercised as much as I could with three kids.

I think I took eight or nine months to make 'Immunity.' I just focused on mainly that, and it felt amazing.