persistence quotes

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.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

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.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

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

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

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

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

‚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.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

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.

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.

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.

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

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

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

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

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

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

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.

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

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.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and 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 am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.‘

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

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

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

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

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