Quotes About Perseverance

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

The days you work are the best days.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.

If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive.

If you work hard, it will pay off in the end.

Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completion, satisfies me.

Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.

I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

I'm just not one of these guys who, like, you know, woke up with a six-pack. I need Skittles. I have to eat very particularly and I have to work out like a madman. And then it looks like... okay.

Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.

If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning.

I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.

Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up.

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.

There is no substitute for work.

There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.

I am tired in the Lord's work, but not tired of it.

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.