Quotes About Perseverance

If someone wants to employ me, whoever wants to employ me, I'll go and do that. I just want to work.

I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.

Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work.

There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .

Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.

My head's filled up with all the reasons it won't work. And I keep running the figures, over and over, but I can't seem to come up with an answer.

I think anybody starting any new career needs work.

Attack work! Even the toughest work will start running away! Attack the difficulties! This is the Golden Rule of every kind of victory.

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

Everything's going to be fine. She'll be back at work soon. Let's just keep the house clean." Oh yeah, I want to say, because a clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.

I'm a little bit of a glutton for punishment, especially when it comes to work. I don't mind a bit of suffering. I think it's in suffering that we realize our best selves.

That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.

There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.

Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining

I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.

I'm a workaholic. I could easily work 300-plus days of the year.

One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

We all have a path to take; sometimes it's hidden under the weeds, so you might have to work a little.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.

The times I've been most successful have been the product of hard work and focus, but there's also been an ease and flow to it that's unmistakable.

I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.

I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .