Quotes About Perseverance

My work has changed my life. My work has saved my life. My life has changed my work.

I'm very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building.

Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; 'tis God's gift.

With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!

When I was 15, I had lucky underwear. When that failed, I had a lucky hairdo, then a lucky race number, even lucky race days. After 15 years, I've found the secret to success is hard work.

Work like an Arminian, sleep like a Calvinist.

I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.

Study your strengths; then decide how hard you want to work

The mentality, that's something you should be able to control. Whether you are healthy or not, how fast you can run - they aren't things you can work on, but the mentality should be.

Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds.

Work. Study. Focus. Dedicate yourself to it and don't give up.

How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.

Focus on your work. Be the best you that you can be. Develop a thick skin and let things roll off your back. And keep a sense of humor!

Sometimes, you turn back. Sometimes, you walk away. And sometimes, you find the place you're meant to be, and you stay there. You find a way to make it work. Whatever it takes.

I ran right back to work. My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.

Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I'm 'into it.'

I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.

You've really got to keep on improving and improving and improving. It still involves work. It's not like you get to a point, and then you're good and that's it.

It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.

I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

With some hard work I'm sure you'll be able to walk again.

The work is more important than the reward.