Quotes about Perseverance

Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.

I am a person of great faith and idealism and have been in too many situations too many times to become an eternal pessimist regarding politics.

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

I have always said from day dot if somebody comes in and they give me a chance to play and play regularly then they will get the best out of me.

When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, but I never had that.

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

When you try to be a role model, not everybody can relate to some of your highs - awards, championships. But everybody can relate to the lows. Everybody's gotten fired from a job or gotten cut. People learn more about you in those lows than they do in the highs.

I think my story relates. When I started out, all I had was my passion and grit.

Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it's coming, a common response is, 'Oh no! Not again!'

Hits and flops will always be there for any actor.

When you find yourself hitting up against a wall over and over again, it's time to try a different route.

In hockey, it was a freak show. I'm the son of actors and from California, and in Canada, hockey is a religion, so me coming in, it was like, 'Who the hell is this guy?' I just had to put my head down and work really hard, and it was difficult, but it made me who I am and gave me a backbone.