Quotes About Perseverance

I'm a survivor.

In some ways 'Survivor' might have saved my life.

I have done a lot greater things than 'Survivor.' Going through SEAL training was much harder than 'Survivor.'

I like myself being a survivor.

I consider myself a survivor.

I'm not just a runner. I'm not just a fast guy. I'm a fighter. I'm a survivor in life.

Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull through. A strong mind and body aren't always enough. You might also need a resilient heart.

People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

We, Filipinos, are really great about keeping a positive attitude and seeing the silver lining in all things. We're survivors!

I wanted to resist in 'The Look of Silence' making a film that ends with any kind of positive hope I feel in human rights documentaries dealing with human survivors.

I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.

All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.

Black people are achievers; we're survivors.

When people are pushing me against the cage, in the past I was more susceptible to allowing it to happen because I had that jiu-jitsu mentality that I'm not going to grind back.

I remember my first acting class: I was like, 'That's it.' If I know that I want to do something then I'm going to do it and there's no stopping me, whether it's if I want to take a movie part or don't, or eat sushi for lunch or don't. There's always a very clear goal. Once I figure out what I want that's it.

My cognitive skills are a little suspect at times. It comes and goes on certain days. I can be sitting here and you might say what's wrong with him, and I'll figure out what I was saying and start going again.

Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's something wrong and throw it away.

I was suspended for two years and I got really fat. That was a polite way of putting it.

Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.

Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.

To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

The truth sustains me.

A lot of times in America, we work on bully muscles. We want the big muscles and the stuff that looks good. But we don't focus on the little things. But that's the stuff that sustains you and keeps you strong.