Quotes About Perseverance

I didn't have my first band until I was, like, 30.

It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.

Don't bang your head against the wall about what you can't do.

I used to try and do backflips a lot, but I used to bang my head more often than not, so I gave it up.

If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head.

No matter who you are, and no matter what you've accomplished, I have yet to meet someone who doesn't still feel like they're banging their head against some wall over something in their way.

I'm constantly bumping and banging into things.

I could not keep my success. I had such a great run. By 93-94, it all came to an end and I had to go to Bangladesh and work there.

Let us banish fear.

Gay, straight, whatever - none of that actually matters when you're fighting someone. Not what you have in your bank account, what you drive, what sex you are, none of it. I think that's the message the UFC has been trying to push.

I was essentially bankrupt at the age of 16. That almost near-death experience kind of built the next success for me in business.

The only reason I took up small roles in big banner films was in the hope to get the attention of other directors.

I think because of my name and my dad, two things I am so proud of, the bar has always been so high in people's minds. But my bar has always been higher than that.

A lot of people make the mistake of setting the bar too high.

I set the bar very high. I'm very tough on myself.

Conor McGregor set this bar, and I'm trying to break it. If you're not trying to break it, then why are you in the game?

We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.

When you set out on a journey, you set the bar high but you don't know what you can achieve.

It's not easy to play for Atletico. Talent is not enough, the bar is very high.

You have to set the bar higher and higher.

It's really hard to get a chance in Barbados.

I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?

At Barcelona, it wasn't about winning all the time; it was first about how to win.

What Barcelona almost always do is play a good game, but we don't always win.