Quotes About Perseverance

I saw what it means to work every weekend and every night, and I realized it doesn't work for me. It's not necessary. If you know what you want, you can achieve it without going crazy.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

If you want learning, you must work for it.

I do have high expectations, like anyone does. I expect myself to do well. It comes with all of the work I've put in and what I expect from that work.

I know what I want and I'm going to work to get it.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work.

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

Nick O'Leary loves to compete. His work ethic is fantastic, and that's what I like about him. He works, and works, and works; and if he has to get better, he gets better.

Modeling gave me a strong discipline of professionalism where you work very long hours.

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.

It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.

The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.

If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.

People always say to me, "What if it doesn't work?" If it doesn't work, we redouble our effort. We're not going to cry like a bunch of babies. We're going to redouble our effort.

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

I put in the work to hand Keith Thurman his first loss.

I find the light and work it, work it, work it.

I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'

You don't need to be special to be awesome. You just need to do the work.

The Lord will never abandon you nor forsake you. He will stick with you until His perfect work is complete.