Quotes About Perseverance

I needed to focus on what is good for my career long-term and when you decide to do something - you stay true to yourself.

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

I was good at speech and debate and academics. I should've stayed in my lane, but I kept trying out for the basketball team. I thought I would make the N.B.A.

If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference.

If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don't think I'd still be playing.

I was on Saipan when I got hit. Not too bad, but bad enough to hamper me if I stayed. I was hit in my left buttocks just below the belt line.

Sometimes I think what it might be like if I stayed in the background and was just singing in a choir somewhere. That crosses my mind on some of the bad days when I'm overworked. But it's just a fleeting thought.

My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.

I was 14 years old when my dad went into rehab, and he stayed there for a long time - I don't know, 10 or 12 years maybe. He first was there as a resident, as someone trying to get sober, and it took a long time; and then he stayed on helping people get their GED.

The reaction to 'Dev D' success wasn't a balanced one from my end. I ran away! I should have stayed around and seen how I could balance things. But I wasn't capable of that.

Women of my generation who've stayed in science have done it by playing the men at their own game.

Eventually I ran for the board of the WTA, lost my first attempt, got on the board my second attempt, and stayed there through most of my career.

I have stayed away from my family since I was 19-year-old because of my career in music.

If I knew I couldn't win races, I would have stayed in the States.

Because, you know, it's never a hard work when you enjoy yourself. Look, I've been here since 57 years, and I don't have to explain why I've stayed so long. I always enjoyed it.

I don't think I would have stayed for the second season if I hadn't been happy.

I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half.

We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers.

There are some people who have stayed with us our whole career, which is pretty cool too.

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.

To me, I'm the epitome of what a ghetto child is: I was raised by a single parent; I stayed in apartments my whole life; I don't think I've ever cut the grass.

At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody else's rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.

I had a husband who stayed with me, and small children, and I had no choice but to pull myself together and rebuild a different kind of life. There was no other choice.