Quotes About Persistence

You know, old folks can have dreams, too, as well as young folks, and then work toward them. And to have a dream like this come true for me is just a terrific experience.

Don't be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

And everything you get, ya gotta work hard for it.

Success isn't always about 'greatness'. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success. Greatness will come.

If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.

I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work... THERE ARE NO LIMITS.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Work hard at everything you do. Never give up. Never quit. Many people have talents but without the hard work you won't get anywhere.

We'll continue to work hard to do a better job in every area going forward. I don't know where those little things will come from but we'll continue to be diligent on them.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

If at first you don't succeed, try again. If it still doesn't work out, success may not be your thing.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

Yes, I don't have any talent. That's why I work hard.

I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.

Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work."

My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder - if you take 150 practice shots, he's taking 200." And that drove me.