Quotes About Perseverance

Fighting the ongoing war in your day-to-day life, everybody has their battle going on that nobody else knows about.

Many people decide to jump from niche to niche, as they cannot find success immediately with the niche that they have chosen for their online business.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

I was an only child, a hard-case kid, in a rough neighborhood. But I always fought my battles.

The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.

People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.

Journalism doesn't have to be your first love... or your only love. You can come to it in desperation, because you can't think of anything better to do with your life, that it's this or the abyss. But once you get going... it helps if you love it.

If you're on Earth as a single-purpose engine, and there's only one thing you want to do for the rest of your life, have at it.

I know only one way: work hard.

For people who have been ostracized, who have been all the way at the bottom, there's only one way that we can go - and that's up.

There's only one way to get strong. You work at it.

The only time I don't work is when I am asleep.

There's no such thing as holding back. I want to finish as soon as possible. The only time I did it was because he was a friend of mine. It was against Thales Leites. We went until the last round because he's a friend of mine, and I respect him.

If you're not a first-round pick or you're not 6-2, they always say you can't be the best. But the only time there's a weight class is before the draft. This is the NFL. It's all about what you do. I can run past guys and get done what I need to. I can do everything the big guy can do.

The only time I won't be playing is when I've got a hangover.

The only time I really enjoyed myself before was when I was training. Besides that, everything else was an absolute nightmare. It was all about self.

I've worked my butt off. That keeps my feet on the ground - I'm the same Luis Fonsi onstage and at home cooking an omelette in basketball shorts.

My first stand-up experience, like most comics, was horrible. I got booed offstage. I thought I was funnier than I was. But the walk from the back of the room to the stage was the most excited I'd ever been about anything in my life other than kissing a girl. That's how I knew I had to get back onstage and do it again.

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.

I was basically a dork that hit the books and liked to build things and did all of the things that you weren't supposed to do to be popular. But somehow I ended up onstage, playing guitar in front of everybody else.

It took me two years to walk around a chair with ease; it took me another two years to learn how to laugh onstage - and I had to learn everything.

These guys were always saying, 'The minute you get onstage, it's great, no matter how much you're hurting.' But that didn't work for me. There were some nights I did not want to get out there.

I talked with labels and they wouldn't help with my international career. They said, 'Saara, if you're in Finland you just have to sing in Finnish.' That led to this situation where I felt very lonely. I was really sad and still I was doing gigs all the time. I'd go onstage crying but I was still trying to sing.