Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin‘ away.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

On ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

There’s people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That’s not the sign of a champion.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

I’m not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.