Quotes About Perseverance

I had to do a lot of studying 'cause I had to learn new languages all the time. So it was a little bit painful watching other kids play outside, and I'm stuck at home learning something.

I was black, studying physics and engineering. I was from a small school nobody ever heard of.

I was at Boulogne, in the second team - the sixth, then the fifth division. I wasn't professional, so I kept studying because I wasn't sure if I would be able to make a living as a footballer.

When I started my engineering, I had to support my education expenses; I was then studying in what is now the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar.

As a medical student, you have to study every day. You can't cover the syllabus by studying for a few nights before your exam.

When it's football time, that's where I am - the studying, the working, the practicing, everything.

Ideally, I'd really like to put my own stamp on things, but it takes years, you know, and you're constantly learning and studying and falling in and out with your instrument, learning different approaches and different attacks.

I love the game, working out, studying, every facet of it.

I'd done a sports diploma at college and three years studying carpentry, it made me appreciate things. But I honestly think it helped not going down the academy route. I had to work harder for everything.

Doing research isn't simply about studying hard.

Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

I think that all of the deep, intense things, a lot of different abuse, and all kinds of crazy stuff - I think it made me really strong and it made me learn how to appreciate every day, appreciate people in my life, so it's just another good example of sometimes bad things make us appreciate the beautiful every day.

As a black woman I always felt growing up I had to do above and beyond stuff to be noticed, to feel like I could hang with everybody else.

I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff and take stuff gradually.

With the solo stuff, it's like starting over from scratch. It's rolling up your sleeves and getting down to work.

I always wanted to be an actor. It's something I always secretly wanted. You know, I had the experience of being picked on as a child, and I would tell people, 'You're gonna be sorry when I'm famous!' And then I learned after they kicked the stuffing out me that you don't say that out loud.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

What's positive is moving from a place of growing in faith to really feeling more grounded in faith, to understand that faith is hard, that I'll stumble, that I'll make mistakes, that I'll sin. But, that's part of being on a faith path; it's part of being a human being.

You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

When you're fearful, you stumble.