Gina Rodriguez Quotes

You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'

Coming out of Juilliard, I honestly was expecting and willing to be breaking my neck, hustling, and being unemployed for a decade, two decades. I was gritting my teeth, but I was so down to do that.

There is no secret, you try and never stop trying. If you have to sleep all day, and get up the next day, you keep trying. If you have to take 3 years away, do it and then come back. But it's all about trying. Not everything will work, but some things will, and you have to try.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Persevere and get it done.

If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

I just have to keep working hard.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance.

Victory is the child of preparation and determination.

People have challenged me all my life, told me I wasn't fast enough, wasn't smart enough, but you know what? No one's ever outworked me. My definition of tired and most people's definition of tired are two totally different things.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

But I'm not the girl who changes into flats because my feet are tired at the end of the night. I go the distance. I go all the way.

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something blocks one route, find another. Never give up.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

I've been out with lots of other artists opening for them on tour, and you just learn that none of their success came easy - it was all hard work for them, and you have to buckle down and get ready for the hard work yourself, too.