Quotes About Perseverance

And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with.

I didn't go to film school. I just kept doing videos and whatever. So I guess I learned my education from just experience. Figuring out what worked and what didn't work.

I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.

Just all that hard work, all those hours in the pool, I feel like it's about to pay off. I guess we'll just have to wait and see this summer.

And I think more than anything else, I know when I go to bed that no one's working harder doing what I'm doing, and I think, quite frankly, simply that hard work at some point was gonna pay off.

If you go out there and your main purpose is to get a sponsor, then it's not gonna work. Just go out there and have fun. That's how I got sponsored.

Nobody works harder than Lady Gaga. Nobody. She is unbelievable. I don't know how she sleeps, or when or if.

A Gold Glove would be one of the things I would really cherish. When I was younger, I was always smaller. I couldn't hit, so I had to work on defense.

You want to have expectations. I think it makes you work a little bit harder now, and it makes you want to prove to everyone that it wasn't just a one-year thing.

I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.

Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

...great feeling of enthusiasm..this human component began to fade away, leaving only that supernatural enthusisam which must always be at the root of our perseverance.

Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.

The hardest work begins in dry dock.

My father thought I would lead a simple life; that I was bright but unambitious, complacant with whatever work life threw at me. My father, as usual, was wrong.

I learned that hard work and self-discipline can overcome many obstacles.

As I mentioned, things were particularly hard during the Depression. My paternal grandfather was frequently out of work, and the family was evicted from their home.

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

Hard work will have the last smile in its race against luck.

I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.

When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.