Quotes About Perseverance

Things change pretty rapidly. But they don't change inevitably. They change because you work for it.

I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.

They tried stoning me, my dear. It did not work.

For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!

The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.

Anyone who puts 110% into their work deserves as much success as they can get.

When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

You have to have a lot of motivation, a lot of heart and be able to work hard. You can never be down on yourself because baseball is a sport that will bring you down [at times].

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.

I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it's going to be fine.

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I've never thought that. For me it's always been a lot of work and pain and stress.

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

Ultimately, the best runners are the ones who are willing to work very hard but who have a little bit of a lazy streak in them.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.

I was made to be where I'm at. I just had to go through some challenges, so that I can educate others later.

I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.

Touring is definitely work. You're spending a lot of time in the car and around the same people and it's not the easiest thing in the world, but it's better than working a 9-to-5 job or something.

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.