Quotes About Perseverance

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.

I always describe my career as something where nothing ever popped overnight.

No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.

I feel I've done everything late in life. Got married late, and I didn't do my first movie until I was 31. But in this crazy business, you never know what's going to happen. Maybe after 20 years of making movies I'll become an overnight sensation.

At 32, I kind of thought I was past the point where I was gonna get a break that really changed my life overnight.

Marathons don't come to you overnight.

One can't feel old in a day or overnight!

Tia and I have been together for 10 years. Our relationship is not just something that happened overnight. She was with me when I moved to California. I had nothing, and she was established, who had all this money, but she didn't care. That's how I knew she was real.

I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.

Change won't happen overnight.

People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.

I know there are no sure bets or overnight miracles.

We knew when we started we wouldn't be accepted overnight, that it was going to be a long haul.

After I graduated college, I moved to L.A. I started working for the Garry Marshall Theatre in Toluca Lake and did theater at the Hudson Theatre in Santa Monica. I paid my dues by working at every single restaurant in the Grove until they fired me. I worked an overnight shift at the Mondrian Hotel.

Every time you come out of the team I know you don't just disappear, you don't just become a bad player overnight.

Fame doesn't come overnight.

When you start off as a dancer, you don't become one overnight; you must train for more than a decade.

I think people think how I got work came easy. People assume that I was an overnight sensation, because they're just now hearing about me, or that everything happened very quickly.

You want to raise good kids, but it doesn't happen in one day. You want to be a great fighter, but it doesn't happen overnight. It takes time.

I don't think you are ever prepared for success with bands like Simple Minds and U2. It wasn't until your fourth or fifth album that you really got that big-league success. It doesn't happen overnight, so you get used to it.

Evergreen songs are not made overnight. They are cultivated and nurtured and born out of creative conflicts.

Nobody gets to the league and is awful. Some people are more built to be good in this than others, right, but at the end of the day, when people are like, 'Yo, you got great overnight,' I'm like, 'That doesn't really make too much sense.'

It's so funny, this thing of 'overnight success.' I've been doing this for 20 years, but yes, sure, it happened overnight!