Quotes About Perseverance

It's about keeping my eyes on the prize. That comes in steps. So for me to get where I really want, I have to take it one step at a time and I have to focus on the plate of food that's in front of me. I can't be looking down the road or at everyone else's plate.

Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.

Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.

I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

The problem is that once I start on a song and get a rough idea of where I might go with an arrangement, I try dozens, sometimes hundreds, of different things on a song. The bass, the backing guitars, the lead guitars, the keyboards. It's a long process. It's like 100 steps forward and 99 steps back.

I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.

Since I was born and raised in Brazil, the steps to becoming an entrepreneur in the United States have not always been easy.

Anytime somebody climbs up those steps into the ring, they have a heart.

Broadway is the same as Hollywood. Every few years we say we reached the mountaintop, then we take two steps back.

I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.

I realized there are so many steps from getting a deal to having a hit.

When you operate from a nothing-left-to-lose mentality, it's essentially the same thing as the 'Law of Least Resistance.' You have a goal in mind, but you're not emotionally attached to the outcome. You're focusing on all of the little steps inbetween.

I can't believe women walk around in stilettos. I would not make it two steps.

I grew up a loser, and I always felt like one, but I turned out pretty okay. I may be living proof that you can spend your whole life feeling like you're falling down a set of steps and still maybe land on your feet at the bottom.

What I did at the start of each season, regardless if I was coming back as the champion, was run indoors and take forward steps from the first race.

It always sounds so cheesy when I say it, but whatever it is you want to do, just go for it. I don't care what it is: find a reputable school, or if you need to go to college or get the right training, just go do it and take little steps.

My career has been two steps forward and three steps back.

Fractions, decimals, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, mechanics - these are the steps up the mountain side. How high is one going to get? For me, the pinnacle was Projective Geometry. Who today has even heard of this branch of mathematics?

I've got to take measured steps and avoid the pitfalls. Life in general has pitfalls, but being a boxer there's even more.

I think about the notion of progress; sometimes it does feel like two steps forward, one step back. And that just means you can't get complacent.

All I've got to say is I'm in the top 15, I'm not taking any backwards steps.

I am not in a hurry... I take slow steps but never go backwards.

The teams that win consistently, they put the work into it and they don't skip steps.