Quotes About Perseverance

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.

I wanted to set the story straight and really let people know what it's like and what me and my Marines went through.

Sometimes you don't play up to the mark, and you win even then.

I want to stay for a long time and leave a mark so the young generation can aspire to be at the top like me. I love the sport, and that's what drives me.

Sometimes it's better to make a mark than to hit your mark, and I think I realized that early on.

As I say, you get labelled. To stop all that, I've got to win things - that's the only way you make your mark.

It's often said that if doing something was easy, everyone would be doing it. I think that's particularly true when you're trying to make your mark or architect your own career. There's often not a path to follow.

I've had to prove myself. But I'm driven, and I would love to make my own mark on the world.

Most of the people I admire as actors didn't make it until their mid-30s: the Mark Ruffalos, the John Hawkeses of the world.

I want to leave a mark in this sport.

That's the mark of a man, just keeping your head up, right? Not taking the easy way out.

For every Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, there's 30 other entrepreneurs that started their business after working for several years.

I've been married a few times. I'm not good at it.

I grew up as a martial artist, and I'm still a martial artist at heart.

Take a martial art that you enjoy. Don't worry about the end result; just enjoy getting up and going to training. And there is no right martial art to do. They are all good.

I'm a real martial artist, my father always taught me that some way I have to train every day, no matter what happens your life.

Martial arts have always been a major part of my life.

I was raised doing martial arts.

People don't get it. Martial arts is my life.

I've been doing martial arts since I was 9.

I had to learn martial arts.

A lot of people think martial arts are just fighting, but it's character-building, too, and I want to give back.