Quotes About Perseverance

While the United States has often taken the wrong path, it has rarely failed to demonstrate - at least in the long run - the courage to reverse its steps.

Any man who steps in the ring, I give them respect because we're trying to feed our family and this is how we do it.

I'd rather grind slow because when it land in my lap and when I get it, it's going to last longer than just shooting straight to the top and then the plane crashing because I done shot up too fast. I'd rather grind, figure the steps out and stay up there.

I learned a long time ago that you can't skip steps.

I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.

About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are.

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.

It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.

One of the things that I've always had fun with is the stereotype 'white man can't jump.' It's followed me along my whole career and it's something that obviously I've tried to disprove many times.

right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

When flowing water...meets with obstacles on its path, a blockage in its journey, it pauses. It increases in volume and strength, filling up in front of the obstacle and eventually spilling past it... Do not turn and run, for there is nowhere worthwhile for you to go. Do not attempt to push ahead into the danger... emulate the example of the water: Pause and build up your strength until the obstacle no longer represents a blockage.

I mention all this to all of you for a reason. I want to make sure all of you—especially the more wimpy, compliant, and fuddle-brained of your lot—get the message here: DON'T LET THE BASTARDS WEAR YOU DOWN

Believing you cannot do it, does not make it so, believing you can do it must be your only option.

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

One more thing about the backlash personality type: every single one of the bitter self-made men of my youth was a believer in the power of positive thinking. If you just had a sunny disposish and kept everlastingly at it, they thought, you were bound to succeed. The contradiction between their professed positiveness and their actual negativity about nearly everything never seemed to occur to them.