Quotes About Perseverance

Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.

Pixar has the integrity to not rush.

Throughout Pixar's history, we've had major meltdowns and crises. It's happened throughout our history: you reach a certain point, it doesn't work, and you start all over again.

It doesn't even matter if I don't win a self-gold - after every meet, I have pizza. Pepperoni pizza.

There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.

I'd love to say second place is great, but it's not.

It's been a long road. I've been cut, I've been all over the place, but my mentality has never changed.

I don't want people to see me fall. I mean, I got enough people cheering for me to fall now... The Internet has created some amazing place for evil to exist, you dig?

I want to show the world that we have the best fighters. Our motto is, 'Death is better than second place.'

I'm just a kid that defied the odds. I'm just a kid that ignored the doubt. I'm just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I'm going to continue to go all the way.

I used to be bound by people who placed limits on what they thought I could do. Through that, I learned that if you want something, you have to be the one to go out and do it. If you don't ask for something, you're not going to get it.

I never expected to be the face of sexual harassment. But I never give up on anything. So when placed in a new, challenging situation, it's like, 'I'm going to give this 110% because that's what I've done my entire life.'

My goal is to keep going and reach as far as possible to beat all odds placed before me.

Often, bumpy roads lead to beautiful places.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

I just want to be a better fighter, plain and simple.

It was clear that it wouldn't always be plain sailing for me.

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

The biggest was me running Lionhead at its peak. That was about 305 people. I'd say that was, for me as a creative, one of the most hellish times of my life. Normally running a team is like herding cats. This was like herding the entire African plains.

I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

I never saw myself not being a stand-up. That was my plan.

Everything does not happen according to a plan, and you learn your lessons the hard way.