Quotes About Persistence

Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. If you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.

Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.

Do what you want, do what you need to get done. Find a way to do it.

Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.

But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be.

Until the day I die, or until the day I can't think anymore, I want to be involved in the issues that I care about.

If you want something bad enough the whole world conspires to help you get it.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust your balls and go for it if you want to play music.

People need to wake up and realize that life doesn't wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.

I think that if you're passionate about something and you're driven and you're focused, then you can pretty much do anything that you want to do in life.

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go.

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

I believe in working hard all the time. I have faith that working hard is going to get me where I want to go.

No matter what happens, no matter how far you seem to be away from where you want to be, never stop believing that you will somehow make it.

Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.

You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.

If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.

The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.

The overall message is that no matter what you want to do in life, don't give up.

If people say "no" to you and it's something you really want to do, keep going and you'll succeed.