Quotes About Perseverance

We've had a humble upbringing. You know, my father came through as a political refugee; my mother comes from a hard-working-farmers family. We've had humble upbringing.

I had a totally different upbringing, totally different background, raised in Germany, small town, now I am in London taking care of 180 kids who think they are the one percent who can make it in professional football.

I wanted to prove I wasn't that person everyone wanted to stereotype me. You can slag me off, I talk about my upbringing now and try and do it in a way that inspires others, but I never felt good about it.

Man. I've been through a lot as a kid. But at the same time that upbringing just made me stronger and made me more determined to make it out of where I made it out from and just fight extra hard to not go back.

I had a very humble upbringing, earned everything I got, and learned how challenging it is in the pro wrestling business.

I always knew that my identity wasn't in football. It wasn't in baseball. I knew it's always been in Christ and just my upbringing has always led me to have a tremendous faith that God was going to see me through and he would not give me too much that I couldn't bear.

I learned you work for what you get, and I feel sorry for people who haven't had that upbringing.

I've had the hardest upbringing of any fighter in England.

That's my upbringing. Try, if it doesn't work out, try again. It was the same thing with Parliament.

At the end of the day, I come from a culture and an upbringing where you create your own path. There is no seat at the table for you? You create your own opportunity.

I had a rough upbringing. Group homes. Foster homes.

I had a poor upbringing. We lived in a rented house with no bathroom and an outside toilet and that, combined with the fact that I left home at 15 without any serious education, has always made me feel like I have to compete.

I had a very tough upbringing. We all had to do something called 'manual labour.' Mostly it meant getting up at 5 A.M. and cutting grass endlessly.

It's not how you start, even with a rough upbringing. It's what you make of it after.

I had a very rough upbringing.

My upbringing gave me a lot of backbone and prepared me well for showbiz. It could throw anything at me and I could take it.

Mum's always been a go-getter and passed on the same values to us. From starting her own supermarket to learning new things and staying updated on technology and applications, she's always constantly learning and growing as a person. So, I didn't have to look outside the house for a role model because my mum was right there, ambitious and driven.

Our success just flies in the face of critics or people who would rather that we just failed... because we didn't fit into the style of the times or our lyrics were too upfront or too earnest or whatever.

Upgrade' was a hard one to make.

Creating 'Upgrade' was really something I enjoyed even though it was stressful. I would do it all again.

Losing busbee was such a moment of upheaval. He had believed in me... carried me... brought me through everyone getting deals around me... because he knew something I couldn't see: that it would happen.

The road to success runs uphill.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.