Quotes About Perseverance

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.

My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

You have to love what you do because it's really, really hard work to get to top and it's even harder to stay there.

What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.

I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.

I hate working out - I have to mentally push myself through it. I can get very whiny, saying things like, 'I can't do it!'

If we don't put our faith to work we will soon discover that we have a faith that doesn't work!

In my heart of hearts, I know that whatever I do is going to have integrity, and I'm going to work really hard, and I know that fans are going to take to it.

Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat

I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.

Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.

...A man is not required to run faster than he is able but it is a requirement to run.

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

We do not choose between a life of difficulty and a life of ease. We simply choose for what purpose we will work, sometimes suffer, and hopefully endure.

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

It's a lot of work living the life that you want to live, but that's what I'm doing.

Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.

Don't be afraid to discard work you know isn't up to standard. Don't save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.