Quotes About Perseverance

We're poor black kids from Akron, Ohio. When you tell stories about people like us, sometimes it's going to be considered a social-impact story.

I am fully committed to Ohio State, the football program, as long as I can.

Find some fun way to get a little more oil on your hands or mud on your boots. Sometimes, that's what it takes to take down some of the really big problems.

Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

I'm from the hood. You put me in a rough neighborhood and believe me, I'm OK.

You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'

I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 10 years,' so I was like 'OK, I'll just be a lawyer'.

Sometimes, of course, I could not belong to the boys club, but that's OK. There are always ways to do what I wanted to do. It doesn't really matter so much to me.

It's never OK to lose a game.

Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming.

It's OK to get your feelings hurt.

My goal is to always be a transformational leader, and to go big. And when you go big, you don't always win. And I'm OK with that.

After I lost the first set, I was like, 'OK, I need to get help because I can't play this way.'

It's a long season, and if you can go back and forth pretty well, you'll end up OK.

People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.

The failure of 'OK Jaanu' hit me hard.

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done.

When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.

That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.

Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.

If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK.