Quotes About Perseverance

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

Even after I won the Oscar, my phone did not ring. No one called me to fund films or offer projects.

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.

Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'

Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.

It took me three and a half years to go from being sentenced in federal court to going to the Oscars.

I was going to be a comedian but then also winning Oscars and directing movies and creating my own charities and saving the world. The more I've let go of that... I see more access to possibly being able to have something like that.

I've experienced a great deal of, you know, ostracism from the making of films.

You see a lot of managers who are working and yet are already talking about other countries and other teams. But that's not for me.

No matter what the game was or how much older and stronger the other kids were, we were taught to give it everything we had until it was over. Never give less than one hundred percent.

Music. It has always showed me that I could do what the other kids couldn't do. So I will keep playing and singing and entertaining, as long as the good Lord lets me. That is my life.

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

I'd like to help other kids with dyslexia, because I'm dyslexic. It was very hard, and I know that what I went through, other kids are going through.

Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.

I dreamed of being an NHLer the first day I played. Sometimes the other kids would say there are not many black players in the N.H.L. So I really followed as many black players as I could.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

When you get knocked down, you got to get backup. Otherwise, you are going to lose.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

When I arrive at a club, I always look at it like I'm going to stay all my life. I couldn't work like I do otherwise.

You have be to ambitious, or otherwise, you go nowhere in life.

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.

I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.

I would say that nobody is going to work harder for your career than yourself - the one with the vision. No matter how many people you hire, nobody is going to get is as much as yourself does. So it's really important to be your own leader at all times and not hand it all off, otherwise the whole empire will fall apart.