Quotes About Perseverance

The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.

The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.

Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.

I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.

I do not have answers to all the problems, but for sure will work to find solutions to as many as I can.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him.

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

To achieve your dreams, work is required. Suffering is optional.

Most of us miss our best opportunities in life because they come to us disguised as work.

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.

If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work.

I've never been nervous. I just wanted to play and have a good time. If it didn't work, then I would get nervous. But, for the most part, I just go for it.

If you do your work, eventually there will be a spark. A fire. A blaze.