Quotes About Perseverance

If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.

I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.

I hope to work through disappointment and frustration with as much grace as [Georgia] O'Keeffe did, and I hope to have the same confidence in my own vision.

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.

The most important thing is work.

Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it.

Head, you may think; heart, you may feel; But hand, you shall work alway!

I still want to do my work. I still want to do my livingness. And I have lived. I have been fulfilled. I recognized what I had, and I never sold it short. And I ain't through yet.

I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy.

I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.

If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.

All the hard work means something. That's all you can really ask for, as an actor.

I would say Lil Wayne [is the best rapper]. He's all about hard work and consistency.

It's a lifetime effort, trying to understand the way our minds work, and make it work in your favor and not against you.

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

Women have to work exceptionally hard.

Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.

Harder is Better! Post work out! Foot in the Ice Bath. A girl has to make a living! #hardcandytoronto. #addictedtosweat

If I have a problem, I want to work it out, right now.

Some people would say you need what you need to work, but I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.

Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.