Quotes About Perseverance

All in all this is a difficult political struggle which will go on for years, in which our people won't die anymore; I'm not sure how much we will be able to win, but I'm certain that we won't loose anything that we have now.

I'm drawn to roles where someone has to struggle or fight.

There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

You'll never see me go into a fight and struggle to get up for it. I understand first and foremost what's at stake.

If you look at anyone's career, there are times when you have hard times. Even the best players have to struggle through things.

After my debut, I had to struggle for seven years to establish myself in the industry.

I think we all have moments when we struggle with motivation.

Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.

I think there's only one interesting story... and that's struggle.

I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.

I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.

It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you don't find out you're an artist because you do something really well.

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times.

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.