Quotes About Perseverance

My freshman year, I ran for student class president and lost. The next year, I ran for student class vice president, and I won.

We've all got vices, and we're all freakin' trying.

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

I want to tell all the dreamers out there that they should stay away from vices if they want to succeed; that they need training, guidance, and support.

I knew I wasn't going to make money in the beginning, so I found another way to support myself - I was a receptionist. It's quite smart to work that way. Otherwise, you get vicious and desperate, and no one wants to work with you. Build your career slowly; then people start to trust you and pay you well.

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

A lot of people want to see a last fight, but I am now engaged in a different fight - one that is much harder, much more vicious, and much more important to me. I am fighting for democracy and fighting for Ukraine.

In any sport at the top level, if you don't put in the hard work, you can be sure someone else is. It is a vicious circle.

Mike Tyson is one of those guys that for most of his career and I'm sure, he decided he was ready to quit long before he got beat. Had he just quit when he wanted to, he probably would've never gotten beat. He's just a beast. I'm a huge Mike Tyson fan. You're talking about a vicious son of a gun.

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.

If you can't take the heat, don't be on that street... I get abused every day, and I don't cry on anybody's shoulder. I don't play the victim card. I get abused, threatened - not only on Twitter but off it, also.

Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.

I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures.

I wouldn't say I'm a victim of high expectations. The expectations are going to be there.

And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.

The big thing I learned from Chris Rock was not to be a victim of show business. Don't let show business push you around.

The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

I can only say, don't be a victim of stress and distress. Just go out in the world and strive what you want to become.

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure.

On paper, I refuse to position myself as a victim and say, 'Oh, see, this is hard for me, and I'm never going to get any work because they're never gonna look for a half-French, half-Cambodian girl.' I've always said, 'Carry on and work on your job, and at some point, it'll come.'

I am not the victim, and I won't be the victim in football or life.