Quotes About Perseverance

Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.

When you're out of gas, you don't have many options.

'Old Town Road' came after a period of feeling like I was out of options. I was living with my sister. She was pretty much fed up with me being there.

There's not a whole bunch of options in America for a black man. But sports gives you that opportunity... So where would my life be without football? I don't know.

I have a lot of interests. I daydreamed about various career options growing up; the one I'm in is the first one that worked out, and I love it, so I feel very lucky.

Honestly, six months before getting 'Orange Is the New Black,' I remember telling my manager I was done.

If you're in space on the way to Mars, and a conflict develops... you can't turn around and go back, because Earth is already gone on its orbit.

But every crew that makes it to orbit is lucky. Spaceflight's not easy.

'Geronimo' was a huge amount of work. That involved 80-piece orchestras and Indians and Tuvans and all kinds of crazy people on that thing. That's a real circus, that score.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal.

I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

Sometimes, growth isn't always equal to success. You may fall forward and continue to make some mistakes, but it's all about growth and really finding the lessons that needs to be learned in order to get to the next level.

You just have to keep coming to work in order to be the best.

Everybody believed you had to have a big piece of lumber and then muscle the ball over the fence. But by the time I and Hank Aaron - another guy who did it with his wrists - were through, there were a lot of guys ordering light bats and playing handball.

I worked a lot of non-acting jobs for a really long time. They ranged from auto mechanic to landscaper to manual labor to working in a factory that made airplane parts. I even tried to go to school as a paramedic and ended up being an orderly in a hospital.

The beginning of a career is hard for many players, often because of the ordinary day-to-day problems that football and life bring.

I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics club, and 12 years later, with great coaching and the support of people who loved me a lot, I ended up at an Olympic Games.

My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

India's middle-class knows better than most how hard and lonely the struggle of an ordinary man can be.

Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.

I lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.