Quotes About Perseverance

My parents were electrical engineers, immigrants from China, and we were always just in a state of struggle, building our life.

I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.

I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

'Growing Stronger' emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up.

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

The struggle I went through has value.

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.

I'm from Louisville, Kentucky, and nobody gets out of there. So I'm like, how am I gonna get out of there? Nobody else can. So it took some time. The struggle made me realize I didn't really want to be 'normal' anymore.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.

I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.

People who are living in economic struggle are more than their circumstances. They're majestic and creative and beautiful.

It's a long struggle when you're starting over.

It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.

There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it's nice to have something steady.

Coming from a film family didn't help me much and I had to struggle a lot.

I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away.

It's just funny because I think a long time back I was not a fan favorite at all, and now people have followed my journey, have seen the struggle and the perseverance I've had, and they can relate to that.

Everything's been a struggle for me.