Quotes About Perseverance

Everything in New York is a fight. It's a fight to get on the subway. It's a fight to go to CVS. It's a fight to get a cab. And eventually, it wears you down.

Even though we don't always realize it, as the day goes on, we have increased difficulty exerting self-control and focusing on our work. As self-control wears out, we feel tired and find tasks to be more difficult, and our mood sours.

What wears you out is the competing, not the training.

The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

This game wears on you. It tears you down. It's perpetual motion for some people who've achieved a level of independence, like Madonna and Jay-Z - they don't need to do music anymore. But there's people who need it. And in that need, that's when it's tough and it tears you to pieces.

When you set these high expectations and goals, and they are demolished so early in the season, that has an effect on the psyche. It wears you down.

Football wears you out, and when things are not going well, it's not enjoyable.

I am tired and weary because people are continually forcing me off the road. I was actually honked off once.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

I've fought hard and now I'm weary to the bone.

Dig just a little bit deeper. Work just a little bit harder. And don't get weary! Remember this is personal! Let's finish what we started, and re-elect President Barack Obama!

It was a bit difficult in England at first with the weather and the rain, but I love the football culture in this country.

People always think we have the summer off, but it's the opposite. From our rink you can see through the glass to the weather outside, and on a nice day that's really tough.

The markets are like a weather; you may not like it but you have to bear it.

I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.

It doesn't matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.

I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words.

Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.

To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.

It doesn't matter what the weather is like - even if it's minus 10 I will go out there and fish.

Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.

The biggest test for any cricketer in England is the weather.