Quotes About Perseverance

I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.

My songs are always about overcoming things, whether it's breaking up with a guy or just trying to be happy. They're always about being better.

I don't really love writing. I don't love the feeling of starting a new file. But I love the feeling of overcoming and accomplishing.

Nevadans, and all Americans, are resilient. Overcoming adversity is a part of our national heritage.

If I am aware of my own limitations, then I can work towards overcoming them.

All my life, I believe in overcoming challenges.

If you look at my career it has always been about overcoming difficulties in different places.

If you watch closely a highlight of my fights, you will see armbars and everything. But if you really watch, what you'll see most of all is me getting back up. The power of getting back up. And to try again. It's all about overcoming.

I am proud of myself for overcoming adversity.

I think people overestimate the risk of high-risk projects.

Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'

I've been shortchanged and overlooked my whole life. And if you boo-hoo about everything, that's all you're going to do your whole life.

Nothing was ever easy in Memphis and I think that's why the fans were drawn to our team so much. It's because the way we played and the way we got overlooked and the respect that we didn't get most of the time was very similar to how the city felt and how the locals felt about life in general. It was an easy bond.

I think competing gets overlooked sometimes. The competitiveness that you bring to a game and an at-bat, it can go a long way. It really can.

I'm always going to be overlooked. That's just how it is. That's how the league is.

I didn't need to be motivated by other people overlooking me. My motivation was internal, to be better every day.

I think being an immigrant makes me overly optimistic.

I don't really think reviewing music is something you're going to get famous doing overnight.

Nothing happened overnight. Every country we went into, we started at the bottom. We knew that because the music we were playing and the attitude we had, we knew we'd be at the bottom and have to work our way up.

I think people have this sort of idea that 'Sex and the City' was this overnight sensation, and that can't be farther from the truth.

I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.

You don't just become a success overnight.

Look at my success. I didn't achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years' struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.

Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.