Quotes About Persistence

Despite his NFL pedigree, Clay Matthews had to fight every step of the way to get to the NFL. Once there, he's had a unique appreciation of what it took to succeed.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Never say that your life is to be a singer. You want to sing because it's a part of your life. But if you don't succeed as a singer, it doesn't mean you don't have a life and it's over.

'Hee Haw' was a concept that nobody (including myself) thought would ever succeed.

My parents have - my dad has managed to succeed at his craft. So, you know, it's not like I was struggling in my life.

You have to believe in yourself, that you're gonna succeed.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.

Because you've done the horrible jobs, it gives you an even grittier determination to succeed.

There are many lessons people can learn about the left. One of the key lessons is they never give anything up. Once they begin a quest, they don't stop until they've got it. The other thing that you need to learn is, they're never happy even after they succeed. They are never happy because there can never be enough to satisfy them.

The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.

I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.

So many great movements didn't succeed the first time, but people kept trying and trying and trying.

I came to realize that if I was going to succeed in the music industry, I was going to have to learn how to perform my songs myself.

It don't stop 'til the casket drop.

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don't get soaked in the rain.

You can't quit poverty.

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.