Quotes About Perseverance

Once I came up with the 'Stone Cold' thing, it was like a snowball rolling down a hill; it just kept getting larger and larger, and I wasn't afraid to push the envelope.

At drama school, I was told, 'Lay off the chips, or you'll never play Juliet.' Sometimes, in the stock room of the set of 'Dinnerladies,' I'd put away three or four Mars bars while waiting for a scene. Then, at 24, I lost five stone.

My biggest moment was me beating Stone Cold Steve Austin to win the championship.

I'm lucky: whatever I eat, I've never wavered from just under 14 stone.

When you look down in history, whether it was The Rock or Stone Cold, they are the perfect example that you can be given the ball, but you then have to run with it.

I've never been a big person. I was about 14 stone when I was working, but when you go up to 18 stone then you know you've got issues.

If you really want to go after something, you have to keep hammering at the stone whether or not the first hit or the 100th hit breaks the stone. You've got to believe that the stone is going to break.

I'm out to prove that NXT is not to be overlooked, that it's not a stepping stone or an easy place to compete. Every single guy and girl down there is hungry.

Halas used to tell his players that football is what you make of it. It should not be what defines you, but football should be a stepping stone for what you achieve in the rest of your life.

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

Pioneers will always get the stones, when everyone later gets the accolades.

When we were trying to get 'Jersey Boys' off the ground, I'd get, 'The Four Seasons? Who's going to care? There's the Beatles, there's the Rolling Stones.' But people know those stories. Here was a story no one knew.

People want to dream up this big, giant goal without putting the stepping stones along the way, and for me, that's what gets you to that giant goal.

There's a process: you audition, you get rejected, occasionally you get jobs, and it's exciting, but it's all little stepping stones.

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

If you look at Keith Richards' hands, from the Rolling Stones, they're these gnarled, arthritic - it looks like people beat his hands with clubs. It's amazing there's so much character in his hands.

It happens in this business - The Rolling Stones were ripped off, so were the Beatles. George Harrison hardly had anything left in the end.

Some days are diamonds. Some days are stones. Sometimes you have a couple of stones in a row.

I bombed in front of 5,000 people. Anybody that's ever stood in front of 5,000 people that don't like them can tell you, it's an energy associated with that. You don't want to feel that. You ask yourself, 'Do you really really want to do this?'

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.

You know, once you've stood up to cancer, everything else feels like a pretty easy fight.

What we, as African Americans, stood on was our faith.