Quotes About Perseverance

I know a lot of people who are weak, who are in a perpetual cycle of poverty and being locked up. There are guys from my neighborhood who are in jail or who are dead. It does take a certain strength to know your environment and say, 'I can grow beyond it.'

Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does.

We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.

I was in hospital between the Grand Prix in Australia and Malaysia because of a lack of water and a little bit of lack of everything. I was very weak.

Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.

I have not survived 50 years in showbusiness by being Mr. Nice. If you are weak, this business eats you up.

You have some people that's weak, and you have some people that's strong. I consider myself a very strong person.

I believe in finishing what I start; not being able to do that makes me feel weak.

Rich always wanted to be so close that it freaked me out. I always thought it was weak of him that he liked me so much, but then I realized that he was strong to put up with me and stay with me when I kept trying to push him away.

If you're mentally weak, it can destroy you. Some guys who look talented lose and never come back.

Darkness does not truly have sway. I think that it's weak.

Back home, if you get scored on, you're the weak link. When I started getting good, they were like, 'If you're going to play on our team when we go play pick-up, and you start getting scored on, we're not going to let you play anymore.' I started learning how to help other people out with my defense.

My momma wasn't a weak person and she wasn't a complainer. So I don't wanna be like that.

Unfortunately, people always tend to think that girls are weak when it comes to physical tasks. The pressure is there to prove them wrong.

I don't think I've the luxury of being weak. Being strong is my only option.

If you are learning how to box, any type of support will make you weak. Any type of support is counterproductive.

I decided to work really hard in 1987. I hired Matt Doyle, a former pro player, and he helped me with my physical training. Lendl was the first to focus on that. He used to be weak, physically and mentally.

Anytime you have adversity or something that you self-inflict on yourself, you typically always have a chip on your shoulder to make sure that you're not the weak link.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

I believe resilience is the most useful human quality, and I've sought to cultivate it, but in 2019 I felt my resolve begin to weaken at times as it has never done before.

When I am on the pitch, I just want to play, I don't care if it is the Nou Camp or not; I just want to play.

Of course I want to be on the pitch as much as possible and score goals for my club.

It's nice to be cheered, but I'll always have a good attitude on the pitch.

That's one reason fans take to me. They like the battle side of it. They look at me and think this guy shouldn't be on the pitch, he's just bulldozing his way through.