Quotes About Perseverance

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.

I'm loyal to a fault - even though I've been to hell and back with Vince McMahon, I would never to do anything to hurt him. But it's also survival of the fittest out there.

I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.

If anything on the car is going to blow up or fall off, you usually see it happen in the 600. But it's also survival for the drivers because it's such a long race and it's usually hot at Charlotte. It's hard for drivers to feel good for the whole 400 laps.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

So much of Judaism is about suffering, survival, and pathos.

I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.

If something happens and you're behind, and you get hit in the mouth early like that, you have two options: You can either pack it in mentally and internally and go into survival mode and quit, or you're going to get up and go to work.

I became a stand-up because that was my survival.

I fought for my survival since infancy.

We had nothing in hand and my father used to live on the street. The profession of acting happened to him when B.R. Chopra picked him up for a film, and my father acted just to earn money for survival.

When you don't have work for a year or two, you lower your standards a bit for survival.

I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.

Around half of the top alpinists have died climbing. Of course if I'm careful and turn back more often than the others, I can increase my chances of survival. But if I hadn't been lucky a few times, I wouldn't be here.

When I think of my career and why I leaned in, it comes down to basic survival.

As a kid, my goal was survival.

There is no planning in a life of fighting to keep a roof over your head. It's pure survival.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.

Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.