Quotes About Perseverance

My father believed in me many times more than I believed in myself.

When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?

He stands up for himself. He's a fighter. That's who my father is.

My father is an amazing fighter and what he's already accomplished is nothing short of remarkable.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long.

My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.

My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.

Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.

Being brave doesn't mean we have no fear - it means we refuse to be overcome by it.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

People cannot give up their cause, their rights, for fear of defeat.

Fear not! Stand your ground... the Lord himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I have fallen, but I will get up.'