Quotes About Perseverance

Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

When somebody wants to work and believes in something, it doesn't matter if you're well known or rich or whatever it is.

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

I've had to work for everything I have, and I'm not going to stop. The minute I feel I've made it, I'm done.

I've seen plenty of ballplayers way better than me, but they didn't have the work ethic. It comes down to how bad you want it.

Work makes a callus against grief.

If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical.

I thought I had to show people that I would get in early, stay late or even all night, work on holidays. I didn't want to be the rich kid who was along for a free ride.

I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.

I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.

If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will not. It's the life you chose, so live with it and don't complain.

In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.

Nothing comes naturally to me...I have to work and rework and that's where the ideas come from - from years of working on it and thinking about it.

I didn't have to work till I was three. But after that, I never stopped.

We can feel sorry for ourselves or we can put the work boots on and understand the situation and the reality of it all.

I think my drive to work has gone up a bit since I've gotten older.

I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.

I always want to work.

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

The older I get, the more frantic my work becomes because I want to get it all done. It's a losing battle, but I try.

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.