Quotes About Perseverance

In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.

I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.

Everyone thinks something like 'The Hills' just falls into your lap. It's not true. You have to work for everything.

All I knew about shot putting was that my [older] brother could do 44 feet. I decided I wanted to beat him. . . . So I got a shot and went to work and made up my mind to do 45 feet.

My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.

Mental development is a by-product of hard work and effort.

Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and outline.

And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.

I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

I always come back around. I make it work.

Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again.

'I tried and it didn't work' is a lot better than, 'I wish I'd tried'.

I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe.

I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.

When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

If you want to do something that requires willpower - like going for a run after work - you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.