Quotes About Perseverance

All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.

Luck has a lot to do with being a musician.

My losses were based on things I did in training, and luck also plays out during the fight.

Maybe I've managed to keep my head above water through luck.

I think in every industry you need to have a lot of talent; you need to have a lot of drive, but you need a little bit of luck.

I applied to drama school when I was about 18 and didn't have any luck anywhere. They basically turned me away and said I had a bit of growing up to do. I went back to Aberystwyth and did my growing up by spending eight months working in Peacocks.

I've been lucky, but I have earned that luck.

There are so many actresses who struggle for years to get where I am. It's luck that's worked for me more than hard work.

If you make your own luck then I don't seem to be very good at it.

I feel like I've had a fantastic life and career with music, and I've worked very hard, but maybe I've had a bit of luck along the way.

I always look at it this way: You try to create your own luck.

We play every game to win and take the game forward. And if in trying to win we lose a game, tough luck.

I did work incredibly hard but I think there's a certain element of luck.

I always had dreams, my whole life, of being somebody special. Someone out in the world that everybody knew of and everybody liked. Somebody unique. Even when I was down on my luck, in my head I still had those dreams.

Getting a star player in the NBA is not impossibly hard, but close. It requires either an incredible amount of luck, or an amazing amount of time, or some other way to try and get at it.

You just need to go in, try your best and you just need a bit of luck at the same time.

It's all luck in this business, and it's not a kind business at times.

Along with hard work, you also need luck by your side.

I know there are people who say I'm lucky because it looks like I'm not doing anything. But it can't be luck this often.

I am black in a predominantly white industry, and I have been luckier than most.

The philosophy of my life is the harder I worked, the luckier I got.

I could've easily gone the other way, but luckily, I had football and the dream to play in the NFL so I could do something positive with my life.

Luckily, I've just had a lot of people around me that have helped me through it because I wouldn't even be close to where I am if I didn't have the support system I do. I wouldn't be able to do it on my own.

We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel.