Quotes About Perseverance

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.

When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.

I once didn't work out for six weeks. It took me for ever to get the weight off.

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.

It's all about... getting back up and getting back to work and striving to be the best you can be.

That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.

Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

We will make it because we are young and we will never, never give up.

This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.

I want to show kids, look where I came from. You can do it too if you believe and are willing to work hard.

Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.

I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.

Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.

And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.