Quotes About Perseverance

I remember on 'Jug Face' working with Chad Crawford Kinkle, who is as sweet as they come. He told me someone had given him advice that if you're making a drama, you basically need to put your main protagonist through living hell in every scene, and then you'll have a successful film. He laughed it off until watching me every day!

What's that song? It says, 'Everything that you do will come back to you in your sweet time?' That's why I still don't relax. Even my coach gets mad at me sometimes. He's like, 'Come on, man - relax.' I go, 'Nah.' I'm always good.

I embraced, I think, the process of becoming No. 1 of the world, which was long and difficult, but it's sweeter in the end.

It wasn't supposed to work - being a new artist, a female artist, an artist on an independent. That's what made it so much sweeter when we hit No. 1.

At school, when everyone would sell sweets and chocolate, I'd always take it that step further. I'd hustle as hard as I could to get the new Air Forces, to go and chill with the posh kids and the white girls who were around my area.

There are some disheartening days where I don't get to eat my favourite sweets, but my diet has to be followed.

The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

When I was overweight, my back hurt, and my ankles would swell up. It wasn't the weight itself but the problems it brought along that bothered me.

I'm usually sick after a fight. But then the brain swelling goes down, and I'm just hungry as hell.

I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years.

Maybe it goes away, but this is the way I've chosen to live: I want to go down or rise up as an artist. I don't want to get swept up in lipstick or whatever the hell.

We don't get to get swept up, because we have to start over every day at 8 o'clock.

It's never fun to get swept, but it's going to happen.

Getting swept is hard.

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.

I can be proud of every swim, every effort I put in the water, every mental approach to every single race.

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

You want to be in control of a lot. You grow up. You sink or swim. I suppose I swam.

Whatever other people expect me to do, whatever they're comparing me to, I don't care. I'm just trying to swim fast.

I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.