Quotes About Perseverance

The script for 'The Art of Self-Defense,' to be fair, I knew going into it that it was going to be a hard movie to get made.

At some point, parents may become inured to a child's self-destruction, but I never did.

I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.

I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.

You don't actually need confidence or good self-esteem to be successful. You just need to have courage.

I dropped out of my drama course at university after a year and just floated from rubbish job to rubbish job, with no self-esteem and no idea what I wanted to do.

I was inspired by self-help books.

No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end.

I want to be self-made and leave a mark.

Being self-made means doing things your own way - and doing it without any handouts.

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

I've been very successful at selling my things, but I've also been getting up at 4 in the morning for 40 years.

I think, ever since I started doing well commercially, it's always been like, 'Oh, well, you're only where you are because of your dad, and it must be because of Mark Ronson and Greg Kurstin that you do well.' It's just everyone apart from me is responsible for the songs that I've written selling millions around the world.

I don't think anybody submits their first story and sells right away.

I've been working like a dog as a United States senator.

Once I decided I was happy with something, I'd try to send it off into the world, and either someone would want it exactly as it was, or it would remain in my notebook/laptop, and no one would ever see it. This is probably why I didn't work with an editor until I was 26. The solipsism!

My first album, I had to write everything. Nobody was going to send me stuff just because I had a little success.

I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.

I didn't have my first car until after the end of my senior year. I got a Yukon Sport.

I always wanted to make football a career. My senior year didn't go where I needed it to go, though, and it made the decision to turn professional in boxing easier.

Hopefully, I've established a career, but you can be a big sensation one day, and the next day everyone's going, 'Who? ... Who?'

I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.