Quotes About Perseverance

I like to work - I probably work too much.

It isnt always hard work that does the job.

When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.

When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do.

Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.

I just have to keep working hard.

I used to work at The International House of Pancakes. It was a dream, and I made it happen.

You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.

In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

When you love what you do, you can work all the time.

If you want to achieve something, you have to work a little harder and get out of your comfort zone. That is with everything: relationships, the band, music, athletics. All of the above.

I gotta think that one that becomes a philosophy of work, which is "no excuses."

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

I figured that I wasn't as smart or talented as the other kids around, so I just had to work twice as hard. Surprisingly, results showed quickly. I was hooked!

I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.

There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

I'm still working out. It keeps me feeling good about things.

If my film does not do well, it really hurts me. But by God's grace, even if some of my films may not have done well, people have still liked my work in it.

I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.

Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.