Quotes About Perseverance

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

I don't like to gamble, but if there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's myself.

It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.

Just go with it', he thought. 'You won't figure out anything if you give in to fear'.

No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances.

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.

Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.

Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.

You didn't grow up driving...you figured it out.

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.

No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

It is not the hours of practice that matter...it's what you put into the hours that counts.

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.

I hope this brings someone else the courage they need to face whatever challenge is before them.

My one goal when I started was not to actually vomit on TV or run away.

In every moment there is a reason to carry on.

The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.