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Quotes About Perseverance

Even in my revenge fantasy where all I do is exercise, I can still do only twenty-five pull-ups. Pull-ups are tough, no joke.
~ Mindy Kaling
What's so wrong with effort, anyway? It means you care.
~ Mindy Kaling
It's weird when you feel your dream slipping away from you. Especially when you have no other dreams.
~ Mindy Kaling
There is a certain type of greasy hair that you get only when you are writing with no breaks.
~ Mindy Kaling
Entitlement is simply the belief that you deserve something. Which is great. The hard part is, you'd better make sure you deserve it. So, how did I make sure that I deserved it? To answer that, I would like to quote from the Twitter bio of one of my favorite people, Kevin Hart. It reads: My name is Kevin Hart and I WORK HARD!!! That pretty much sums me up!!! Everybody Wants To Be Famous But Nobody Wants To Do The Work!
~ Mindy Kaling
But for years I just chose to never do any strength training because it seemed hard. It wasn't until a particularly disturbing night when I couldn't lift myself off the sofa because of lack of upper body strength that I decided it was time to see a trainer. I
~ Mindy Kaling
write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It forces you to think about what your strengths really are, and once you find them, you can showcase them, and no one can stop you.
~ Mindy Kaling
write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere.
~ Mindy Kaling
If you believe in yourself and work hard, your dreams will come true
~ Mindy Kaling
If you don't see a clear path for what you want, sometimes you have to make it yourself.
~ Mindy Kaling
Sports movies had brainwashed me into the belief that when the chips are down the most, that is when success is the most inevitable.
~ Mindy Kaling
Write your own part. It's the only way I've ever gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It forces you to think about what your strengths really are, and once you find them, you can showcase them, and nobody can stop you.
~ Mindy Kaling
If I can give one bit of advice to any drama major, high school theater kid, or inmate who is reading this in a prison library with dreams of being cast in the prison play, it's this: write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It forces you to think about what your strengths really are, and once you find them, you can showcase them, and no one can stop you.
~ Mindy Kaling
There are more than a thousand people in one square mile of this studio who would kill to have this job. Get your ass up off the floor and go back into that writers' room, you weakling. Then I get up, pour myself a generous glass of whiskey and club soda, think about the sustained grit of my parents, and go back to work. I know that made me sound like a tortured alcoholic, like Don Draper, but I swear I'm not.
~ Mindy Kaling
For there were good men. As long as we women remembered to be strong. As long as we remembered to be ourselves
~ Unknown
Dont stop when you are tired, stop only when you are done
~ Unknown
When you're down and don't think you can get back up, when you've been crying so hard there isn't any more tears, when you're so mad you've broken three things, just remember: when Christ died for you, He claimed you as his own.
~ Unknown
So we support the dance but it does not support us.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
that even while caught in a stormy sea, they must keep dancing, dance on through the rolling waves so that when they finally surged up toward the open air, their grace and joy would light up the world.
~ Unknown
Unlocking our potential requires education, experience, and determination. One should never stop learning, never stop exploring, never stop going on adventures.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Things cannot forever go downward. There are limits to everything—even the cold, and the darkness, and the wind, and the dying.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
We cannot allow ourselves to be hobbled by the woes and alienation of our race or nation. It is our responsibility to overcome these, even if we can only succeed in our hearts.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Adversity is the tempering of one's mettle. Without it, we cannot know any true meaning in our accomplishments.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
The path is difficult to ensure worthiness. The lazy look elsewhere, The persevering find riches.
~ Ming-Dao Deng