Quotes About Perseverance

It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

The way that I've been raised and the things I've had to do has given me grit that is unmatchable unless you were beside me.

You're not disabled unless you say 'I'm disabled.'

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

I will never retire unless I have to.

I think sometimes you just need to play in this league. As a rookie coming out of college, you don't understand the real significance of being a pro unless you're playing other pros. It doesn't help you to play sporadically here or there.

Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.

Don't yell at people. Stand up for what's right. Put yourself in the other persons place. Respect women. Don't take no for an answer. Laugh at yourself. Don't believe what you are told. Fall in love.

If you're dedicated to something and you put the time in, why should anyone have an opinion on it? Halif of the people who comment about women's boxing don't even watch it.

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.

I was very aware that I was a woman and that the Iditarod was a big thing for women, but I didn't want to be given any special treatment. I just wanted to be viewed as a musher.

It doesn't matter if they're in front of the camera or behind the camera. I know women who are producers who are surviving on nothing but juice and almonds.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because they're trying to be a woman in a man's game.

We hear the word Warrior used to describe women and men who show up, give their very best, and refuse to quit until the goal is reached.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.

We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.

I spent years working in low-budget horror films. When you've done 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,' you can handle anything!

It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.