Quotes About Perseverance

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.

You just work through it. You just hang in there.

I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.

The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

Putting 100 percent into your life, your work, or sport, doesn't give you the right to expect success at whatever you are trying to do - it just provides the opportunity.

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

There is no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For 'Immortals,' it was body-weight stuff: crunches, pullups, and martial arts-based cardio.

I work out two, two and a half hours a day.

The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.

With hard work and focus dreams do come true.

Work-do plays, learn your craft, and go to school. Keep working. Nobody is going to give you jobs for going to parties or any of that nonsense. Go out, look around, do things.

Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.

I'm a grinder....I've never taken more than a week off in my adult life. I truly believe work is a virtue, it gives you purpose.

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

The secret to climbing up is to put your heart into your work.

Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.