Swedish Proverb Quotes

When one must, one can.

I'm just one of those people that, if there's a problem, I want to work through it. Push through it and do everything I can. Anything.

Some people call me scrappy - and that's because I am.

One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.

He was always sort of a scrappy little kid wasn't he? A bit of a fighter?

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

I've been through a lot in the music industry, in life. I've learned that I have to be tough in this world.

I was never specifically associated with a part, I didn't have tons of money, I wasn't conventionally tall or handsome, so you know the things that were available to me were hard work and perseverance.

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

A will finds a way.

I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.

At some point in your life, you'll find yourself in a similar position: Surrounded by people who are smarter, faster, who have more experience and more money - and you'll just have to find a way. And you'll have to do it with passion.

I'm just doing the only thing I know how to do. There was never a plan B.

You need to learn a practical lesson. Grit alone is not going to save you from sinking.

There were, of course, ups and downs. But whenever my parents were knocked down, in business or anything else, they picked themselves up and started again.

I've never had it easy. There have been fortunate coincidences and instances, but nothing has fallen into my lap. Whatever I've achieved has always been through sheer hard work.

I've had to be tough my whole life.

I've just kept going, like millions of people do every day, because life does not allow them to do anything else.

I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.

I think women in general, we just soldier on. Whatever it takes, you just have to do it. It's your job. Whatever it is.

It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.

To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.