Quotes About Perseverance

It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.

If you want to take dance to an extra level, you have to be physically fit. You also have to put the years of work in. If there's no pain, there's no gain. You've got to sweat to improve.

Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

I was never overexposed and work never became a chore. I was a very good girl wanting to do a good job.

Surfing is so much work. It's one of those things that I just love, but it's so hard.

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.

No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.

Being an entrepreneur does require commitment. It is hard work, but it is also highly rewarding. So when you can look back and see yourself building a successful company.

Having been a chef for some many years, I understand what it's like to work really, really hard to get good at something, only to have someone piss all over it.

Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.

Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.

When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

I work constantly to be better at being rejected.

There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.

Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.

I planted the seed, now you must work a lot otherwise the tiny plant will die.

One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.