Quotes About Perseverance

There are a lot of people who came out of adverse situations and made it. Use it as motivation. Use it to drive you.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

Failure gets a bad rap, but I'd like to change that. Failure is necessary. Let it in. Chew it up, and use it as fuel for your soul.

I didn't pick up a ball for three years. It was very depressing for me because, as a professional, it's very difficult when you can't use the facilities, play cricket; you can't even touch the ball, so what are you going to do then?

The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.

You gotta do what you gotta do. And I had to figure that out, and I used to - I couldn't stand the media, but I realized they have a job. They gotta do what they have to do.

I'm already used to being a target, so I'm building a castle with the stones people throw at me.

I've usually used the phrase 'stay the course' as one of the great rules of investment success.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

I used to get made fun of in the minor leagues. I'd be 0 for 2, and then in my last at-bat I'd hit a chopper that wouldn't even reach the shortstop, and I'd get a hit out of it. The guys would be all over me, but a hit's a hit. I'll take 3,000 of 'em.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.

I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I've never used it, and I had to stop when I got 'Instant Star' because I couldn't train.

I've been in pain for so long now I'm just used to it.

I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

When you grow up on the other side of the tracks, you're used to taking a few bumps.

When I did a film with Salman Khan, he used to get up at 5 in the morning for shoots. If I can handle Salman then I think nobody in the industry is a problem.

2017 was probably one of the hardest years of my life. There were a lot of personal struggles. I lost some very important people. I had a best friend and then a grandfather pass away. Through it all, skating became an anchor. I used to think of it as a job. Now it was getting me through and giving me hope.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if I'm having a bad day, she goes, 'Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.'

But I always had in built strength. I used to do like push ups for three hours. It's building up that core fitness and stamina.

I just had that mindset to never settle. That's a credit to my pops, too. He used to say 'the sky's the limit' every time we talked.

When you're used to having nothing, the first time you have something, you get really focused. You know if you lose it, it may not be easy to get it back.

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.