Quotes About Perseverance

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

Life is a challenge. Realize that and work, every day, to rise up and meet it.

I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best . . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.

When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

I made a mistake and I'll work in the season to be better. It's part of life to be a man and don't try to hide something if it's broken.

People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done.

I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.

Every time that I've won a championship I've looked at my guys around me and looked at their work ethic and said 'You know what, I'm going to win it this year. I feel that way now.

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

It's not the ideas; it's design, implementation and hard work that make the difference.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.

Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.

Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work

Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.

Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

I am a single mom and I'm the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that's just the way it is. I don't think my son even knows any different.

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.