Quotes About Perseverance

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

The complete man must work, study and wrestle.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.

You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!

Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work.

The one strongest, most important part of my game is that I want to be the best. I won't accept anything less that that. My ability to concentrate and work toward hat goal has been my greatest asset.

We all naturally want to become successful... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.

The results are the payoff. And all this sweating and hard work will be worth it.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.

I always tried to work hard and stay focused, and just use one opportunity to contribute to the next.

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

I have a natural propensity to work on big piles of poop.

When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.

Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.

I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.

I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

You work for a long period of time and the results don't really show, but at some point everything just comes together and you start to play better, or get more confidence.