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Quotes About Perseverance

The best antidote to worry, I have always believed, is work and more work.
~ Helena Rubinstein
Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We've got work to do.
~ Barack Obama
One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.
~ Ellen Gilchrist
As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.
~ Frederic Chopin
Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.
~ Jerry Reed
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.
~ Rem Koolhaas
The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.
~ Beatrice Wood
We're all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I've had to work harder than most.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.
~ Pierre-Georges Latecoere
The real work of an expedition begins when you return.
~ Louise Boyd
Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.
~ Pete Hamill
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.
~ Charley Lau
Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.
~ Annie Leibovitz
Take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work.
~ Tom Welling
The foundation is in place, and now we have to get to work.
~ David Luiz
Main thing is just to remember that hard work got me here and only hard work will keep me here.
~ Brandon Stanton
Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves...help you.
~ Jack LaLanne
If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.
~ Charles Stanley
To get GoPro started, I moved back in with my parents and went to work seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I wrote off my personal life to make headway on it.
~ Nick Woodman
It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!
~ Kathryn Tucker Windham
Working hard is not always fun - that's why it is called work.
~ Rick Pitino
Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.
~ Carrie Mae Weems