Quotes About Perseverance

Is it hot in the rolling mill? Are the hours long? Is $15 a day not enough? Then escape is easy. Simply throw up your job, spit on your hands, and write another "Rosenkavailer."

Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.

I really feel like I haven't had a job. Playing [baseball] and then doing television. I watched my mom clean houses and stuff, so that's work.

Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't.

My work has always been important to me. The reason I continue to do it is because it's so much fun for me. I love my work and so that's what keeps me in the game.

I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.

The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.

We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

You don't have to twist my arm to work.

And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.

I believe I am a work horse. I believe that that is what our country needs. We need a president who will roll up our sleeves collectively as a nation and tackle the problems that we confront.

You've got to be willing to work, and if you're willing to work, you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.

I just wanted to do hair in the movies and in Hollywood, and made it work.

I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while.

There is no fate... no predestination... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future - no one else.

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.