Quotes About Persistence

The minute someone says 'Oh God, you could never do that; you can't get that kind of stuff on the air'...that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

It's perfectly okay to want to quit - as long as you don't.

Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away.

Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.

Success means doing things you don't want to do.

If someone doesn't want me, I'm not going to hang around and win them over.

Fear begins to melt away when you begin to take action on a goal you really want.

I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn't get the life you wanted.

I don't think I've arrived. I think I'm continuing to get there, getting closer and closer to where I want to go. But I'm not there yet.

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

I'm playing; I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore.

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.

It's alright to do things the way you want. There is no map to life, no blueprints to survival, you can create your world day by day if you have a clear vision and an unwillingness to give up.

Discipline is remembering what you want most, not what you want now.

First, perseverance trumps talent. Second, do what you want to do, otherwise why bother? Third, be ethical; it might rub off on others. Fourth, don't give up.

Good things come to those who have patience and take consistent, persistent actions toward what they want.

My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.

For a surfer, it's never-ending. There's always some wave you want to surf.

Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).