Quotes About Perseverance

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.

I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.

I learn that you can work really hard and still have a great time. That is part of Russell Crowe philosophy.

I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done!

My mind-set, my mental game and my hard work is at a first-round level. I play at a first-round level. I've done things that most guys haven't done.

I would describe myself as a hard worker, very humble and focused on whatever it is that I put my mind to.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

I'm happy that people have loved my film and my work. I have always let my work do the talking, and I guess I have proved to my critics that I'm not over.

The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.

It was another day to go to work, and try to play and play well.

I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going.

But it just comes down to trying to get the work out there and however the team fits together then that's the way it sort of plays into itself.

I do believe the harder you work, the luckier you get.

I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.

Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman.

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

Do you give up?" Shezmu bellowed. "No!" I yelled. "No, we don't give up. We will name you. Just . . . Gosh, you're quite well muscled, arn't you? Do you work out?

My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work.

I work every single day, even on Sundays.

I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.

Never hope for it more than you work for it.

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.