Quotes About Perseverance

You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.

We've had a great change. Dr King saw to that. I was so grateful to see the 'colored only' signs come off the water fountains and bathrooms in the south. But the struggle lives on.

My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

I've struggled a lot for what I have today.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

I am a Christian guy. I've struggled with that; I have struggled with everything.

My mom got 11 kids. We struggled.

I've struggled with skin issues my whole life.

I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.

I started playing in goal because I 'struggled to run as fast as the strikers and the other players out there. I was 10 years old.

I'd always struggled with being a very depressed and anxious person in high school. If I had let that kind of dark moment consume me, I wouldn't be able to climb out of it. So I became a bit of a shark.

I want to let little kids know that no matter what situation they come up in, that they're not exempt from success. All I ever wanted was for people to believe in me and just recognize my potential. I came, I struggled, I made it, I conquered.

All the time I had my success, I didn't know what I was doing. I struggled and struggled and hacked things out without any insight as to why.

I struggled academically in high school because it was hard to focus. It was hard to focus on those things that were other than artistic stuff.

We have seen the most difficult times and were there to back each other. We have struggled, seen career highs and lows, and know we will be there for each other forever. We have together build our relationship strong. Himanshu is my biggest investment, and I can't let him go.

I loved being the center of attention and making plays, but I knew the reality of being an actor because I had parents who struggled, I saw people working three jobs in order to be able to audition the next day.

When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.

I've struggled just as much as anyone else.

I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced and my stepdad couldn't get a job. So I think a lot about families like mine who were middle class and struggled. So that experience really drives my philosophy.

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.