Quotes About Perseverance

One little six-year-old took home a note saying he need not come to school since he was "too stupid to learn." That boy was Thomas Edison.

I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle to the boardroom, but it has to be an education process.

I had a lot of trouble in school to begin with. I got left back in kindergarten, and I was in special education. My teachers didn't have very much faith in me.

I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education.

Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.

Knowing what to do is useless without the emotional strength to do what you know.

Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.

I try to get through emotional pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way. I also use chocolate.

Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin.

We learned to build our emotional muscles, helping us make it through major market falls and grind through the trying times without losing our equilibrium.

If you dont have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you wont reach them or will quit trying.

If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.

I handle emotional pain by trying to understand that it's going to be painful and to allow for it instead of fighting it. Doesn't make it any easier, though.

I accept emotional pain, walk through it, and then come through the other side.

When I watch the Olympics I become such an emotional wreck. I've always loved the Olympics, be it the summer or the winter Olympics.

I am on an emotional roller coaster ride to survive and to conquer obesity, not only for myself but also for everyone that battles some kind of addiction.

In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet.

Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs!

When I walk off the field exhausted, drenched in sweat, knowing I pushed myself to the physical, mental, and emotional limits, there is no better feeling.

The world laughed at any attempts we made to exist in it without pain.

even after every emotional accident, the show must go on.

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.