Quotes About Perseverance

I remember I told my mom that I was scared. I asked her, how will I talk to everyone in English? And my mom gave me a dictionary, where I learned one day at a time.

I only take one ball and one day at a time, and if you think like that, you don't feel pressure at all.

I deliberate over the lyrics; I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.

I think that people like to put you down to one line - a synopis of some kind. And I just don't pay any attention to it.

He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.'

A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next - no one wanted me.

One of the things I've observed since I was a kid, is that if you work on something long enough you'll find I, even if you're lost for a while you'll find it.

One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.

One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it's fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.

One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.

That feeling is one of the things that keep me going. On July 6, 1998, I became the WCW heavyweight champion of the world!

If I was going to be a little boy about it, I'd go into hiding for one or two years. But if I was going to be a man about it, it'd be 20 or 30 years.

And when I was saying I want to become number one of the world and I was 7, 8 years old, most of the people were laughing to me. Because you know, it seemed like I have one percent chances to do that. And I've done it.

Going to that level, a lot of guys get to the NFL, and they don't make a long career out of it. The NFL is very hard. One percent of college athletes make it to the NFL.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there's one thing you can't say about me - that I didn't attack it.

As a goalkeeper, you've got to have mental toughness, and that's one thing I'm good at.

I just know one thing that hard work is the key to success and I believe in this.

It's one thing to make the big leagues, but it's another thing to make it to an all-star game.

I know one thing; I'll never win an Academy Award.

One thing I can't do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms.