Quotes About Perseverance

Figure skating is not a hobby. Its my work, which I want to do, and do well.

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time. Some artists never see their work in front of an audience, so for them 15 years is a blink of an eye. I am nothing but grateful.

To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.

We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.

"The harder you work, the luckier you get" is true in all things.

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.

I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It was seven days a week.

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

If you want anything to work, Sunday, you're going to have to believe it

I want to be known as a good major-leaguer, and good major-leaguers work to become good.

It's so much easier just to eat and work out than not eat and work out like crazy.

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

There is a certain thing that you have to just stick to the plan, stick to what you want to do, and you try to work with studios and executives that they get it.

I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.

I've always thought I've got to work and I want to work. When I was younger I had friends who on a Saturday would be going out to the shops but I was working from 8.30am to 6.30pm. I w

In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the void with self-actualization.

My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.

I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.

I like hard work and I don't like pretending things are perfect.

Dancers work really hard, they don't make any money. It's hard.

Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.