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Quotes About Perseverance

A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.
~ Candice Swanepoel
I learned pretty quickly that it's your WORK ETHIC that LEVELS THE PLAYING FIELD. Education helps, but I've met failures who have Ph.D.s. I believe the hardest worker is always going to win.
~ Chris Rock
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.
~ Christopher Fry
You want it? Work for it.
~ Unknown
When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.
~ Dat Phan
Tell me a way you think this can work." "We'll find a way," I tell her. "That's not an answer. It's a hope." "Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.
~ David Levithan
How are you going to do great things if you are not committed to your work.
~ Deacon Jones
Like physical work, if you don't practice, you shouldn't expect results.
~ Unknown
If this whole writing thing doesn't work out, I'll be getting right back on the pole.
~ Diablo Cody
The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.
~ Donald Barthelme
Some say if only my fears and doubts will leave then I will get to work. But instead you should get to work and then your fears and doubts will leave.
~ Dwight L. Moody
This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.
~ Eduardo Galeano
I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
~ Edward Abbey
I always get scared doing a job. To this day, I start every job thinking, I really can't do this. And what I do when I'm insecure is I tighten up. If you work through the night you can do anything.
~ Edward Sorel
When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
~ Eric Hoffer
I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.
~ Etty Hillesum
Some men are so eager for success that they are even willing to work for it.
~ Evan Esar
I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
~ Francis Bacon
I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.
~ Frederick Lenz
Your body has this instinct to start healing and then you go back to work and it hurts even more. It's almost better to keep your body messed-up on a consistent basis.
~ Gail Kim