Quotes About Perseverance

I didn't pass my degree due to never handing in an acceptable dissertation, and while it didn't harm me in the long run, my failure to complete the course properly probably led me to spend the next six years or so coasting, unsure of what to do next.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me - which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn't do it.

I was very unsure of myself when I was young and an ugly little beggar with protruding teeth, so I used to lie on them at night to try to straighten them.

If you go out there with doubts or unsure what's going to happen, it's not going to go your way.

Sixteen years on the road is long enough. Twenty years is unthinkable.

The boxing world can be a very lonely one, and I'm so grateful every day to have Dad and my whole family watching my back. It would be unthinkable if I didn't have their support.

Grit is that 'extra something' that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

You don't know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.

You don't know what your abilities are until you make a full commitment to developing them.

I will remain on the throne until I fall off.

I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.

I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

I'd rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team.

It's never a done deal until it's a done deal.

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.