Quotes About Perseverance

Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean you're going to make it.

The only person who would employ me without a degree was myself.

I'm just going to try to stay employed. That's the tough part in this business.

I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.

I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.

I feel this emptiness in me, like I still got something to prove and I still got so much stuff to work on in my game.

That's not always a nice feeling when you've given everything, and it's not enough - it's an empty feeling.

When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.

I really hope my music and my life can help encourage people not to give up.

When I started training at the age of eight, my dad used to encourage me.

You should always encourage people. The worst that can happen is that they fail.

Now that I got a son, it encourages me to work even harder.

People can say what they want, but at the end of the day, I'm going to keep working on my game. I always know I have things to work on.

At the end of the day, I just have to do what I do and let it be what it's gonna be.

At the end of the day, it's not really about the aces, it's about getting the job done.

At the end of the day, your animal's never going to give up on you.

You do your bit and then you hope for the best and you think, oh I hope there's an audience at the end of the day.

Honestly, I just keep my nose to the grindstone and keep working. At the end of the day, that's usually one of those things that's going to get you ahead.

It helps to know how to lose. You know it is not the end of the world, and you pick yourself up and move ahead.

In college, when you lose one game as a top team, it's like the end of the world.

I don't like losing at anything, but it's not the end of the world if you beat me.

I'm competitive and I don't want to get out, but it's not the end of the world.

If you lose it's not the end of the world.

Two of the biggest things my mom taught me is that adversity isn't the end of the world and that you have to adapt to succeed.