Quotes About Endurance

It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.

It takes many years to prove yourself the best in the world.

A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere.

The fight takes 15 minutes. The build-up takes 90 days. It takes that for a reason.

Being successful right away is obviously less stressful, but when it takes longer, it's often sweeter.

There's no way to become great overnight, but in the marathon of success, it takes a lot of intention to see you through each day of the journey.

I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song.

Working with David Lynch was like taking a bullet. A gun at you. 'Lost Highway' is, I think, one of the best films I've ever been in. It'll endure a long, long time.

I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.

It's about being steady and taking the rough with the smooth, but that's life as a goalkeeper.

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

The big talent is persistence.

Professional creativity requires more than inspiration, talent, and discipline - it requires an endurance that few are aware of and even fewer have.

You need talent as a rider and I think I had that in my genes. But I think I also had a talent for suffering, which I thought was important, but also determination.

I think you have to have the talent, and guys have to believe in what you're doing. Everybody has to play to the end.

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.

I decided a long time ago that I didn't have to be talented. I just had to be persistent.

What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.

People have talked about it off and on, and there have been people who have stood up for me and have said, 'Hey, we know her, and she is a good person.'

It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in.

My father's legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years.

When you've been ridiculed and talked about as much as I have over the course of my career, pressure doesn't exist.

It gets a bit boring talking about the same thing for a hundred years.