Quotes About Perseverance

Here's the thing: I consider myself pretty well - for somebody that didn't go to high school, pretty well educated.

Do your badges everyone tells me. Yeah, but badges wont get you a job. You could have the most educated coach sitting at home, you still have to be given the opportunity. And I know a lot of people arent getting those opportunities. Which is sad.

As long as you give your best effort, I feel like that's all you can do.

The more effort you put into something, the more you get out of it.

In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.

We've got to give a quality effort every day and play better.

You've got to make an effort on your own. Some people don't even try.

There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts.

My family didn't want me to be a musician, and therefore, they never helped out in my efforts.

I'm very much of the school of thought that when you want something, and you think about it hard enough, and you put all your efforts and resources into it, that's it something that can definitely be achieved.

You may not always be as successful as you want to be, but you have to stay goal-oriented. Put in all your efforts, and you will see the results.

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.

I always had this ego where if I ever wanted to come back to doing rap, I could do that. That was not true. I would get stuck, I would be in a room and someone would ask me for something and I didn't have it.

I have friends growing up in Egypt. I have friends in England. And they just can't believe that what I used to say, it used to be almost like a joke. I used to say I'll be in the NBA one day.

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.

I've been playing since I was eight years old.

In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.

I've done 21 films in eight years, and I've said 'No' more times than I've done films.

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

It takes a great strength of character to arrive at Real at eighteen years and make a journey like I have so far.

If someone hit you in the face 7 times, you're not just going to smile on the eighth.

I'm not going to stop just because I'm 78. Bunuel made films into his eighties, and he could hardly see. I hope I don't run into that problem.

There wasn't a game in the Eighties when you didn't get racial abuse as a black player.

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.