Quotes About Perseverance

I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.

I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

When I first joined the DA's office, there weren't that many women. So there was a fair degree of sexism. Everybody kind of got over it when they saw you doing your job.

If you want something, and you find an obstacle, you need to get over it. By any means necessary.

I don't think writers should have writer's block. I think they should write. Imagine you were a bus driver and you said, 'I've got bus driver's block.' Get over it.

It's just like any athlete, we all want a new contract. But I'm not going to stress over it. It's not the end of the world if I don't get it. If I get it, that's good.

If I don't like how I have sang something I will just go over and over it, but I need to give myself some credit.

I know I'm an overachiever, and I'm not apologetic about it.

I was the girl who did everybody's homework, but I was also, like, student council president and yearbook editor and, like, all-around overachiever. Like, I'm disabled, but I can do anything.

I was a real overachiever.

I was always an overachiever.

Overall I have always had my chances to play at Milan and I never thought about leaving.

I try to understand the sport more and more as I develop, and I try to be a better fighter overall and work on everything, not just every aspect, I try to combine it too. I work on it every day, and I try to be a better fighter in every practice.

Overall there's going to be things I'm not great at.

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.

There is still so much room for me to get better. Everyone in this sport evolves so quickly. You could take six months off and come back to a totally different game. That's why I'm always in the gym working. Even if I don't have a fight lined up, I'm still in there working to improve my overall game.

Even though I didn't do as well in the UFC as the rest of my career, I feel like I did everything that I could to have an overall successful career.

The overall experience was pretty cool just because if there was a street, it was lined with people. And for something as brutal as a marathon, you're running for three hours, it's just nice to have all those people cheering you on, putting their hands out for high fives - you never feel alone.

I want to stay in show business; if show business will have me. Still I'd like people to know that I can do something without wearing bib overalls.

I believe I overcame a lot.

I overcame a lot of things, growing up, as everyone does.

I really worked hard and overcame mental barriers to achieve those records.

It seems that whenever America faced a challenge, it faced it and overcame it.