Quotes About Perseverance

From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.

My life is unrecognisable compared to what it was - 'Game of Thrones' has opened doors that were never there before. But it can be dangerous to see it in those terms, I think. It's best to take it as it comes and work as hard as you can, and hopefully the other things fall into place.

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

Trixie Mattel has always opened doors for me. It's closed very few.

Hillbilly Rock' was the song that opened the door and gave me a reason to get a bus and a band and cowboy clothes to go out there and figure it out in front of everybody. And the hits started coming.

Basketball did not save my life. God saved my life. It's not basketball. But God saved my life because he blessed me through basketball. He opened the door from basketball.

I never doubted myself when I opened my first restaurant. You've got to give 100% of yourself until you know you've done it. But it was still a struggle.

It felt like the world had ended when I was fired, but it actually opened the door for my next opportunity.

I miss the ring and look forward to hearing the opening bell ring again.

I was an opening act for 10 years.

In fact, I don't think I'll ever make anything that will feel as divinely dropped in my lap as the opening of 'Wall-E.'

When you're 14, 15, and you get together and start making a noise, it is the world opening up. You have that indestructible feeling when you're young. But your ambitions when you are 13 are different when you're 25. By that time, your ambition isn't to be a star anymore; it's to make a living doing music.

My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.

'A Chorus Line' never dies; it just keeps opening doors and giving back to me - but there was a time when I considered it an albatross around my neck.

When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came, and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.

We never thought that we would be more than an opening act.

My parents raised me to believe that when one door slams in your face, turn around because there's probably another door opening up somewhere.

We've played every dirty rock-and-roll club in America, and we've been opening acts for everyone.

Any beginning is difficult, but when you're opening the newspaper every day, and it's all about how bad you are, sometimes even you begin to believe that.

Either I'm going out on my shield or you're going out on your shield. That's just what it is. I go out there and fight. I see an opening, I take it. You make a mistake, I take it.

There's a lot of pageantry involved in opening day, flyovers, extra long TV breaks and stuff. To say that it's not important, more so than some other ones, it is. It's the first game of the year. but I got 30 starts to make. Each win or loss is equally as important.

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

I tell you very openly: it's much easier to be the heavyweight champion of the world than to be the mayor of Kiev.

If you play well and consistently, it opens up a lot of opportunities.