Quotes About Persistence

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

It's the small things that will make you successful.

There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.

Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be.

Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it's all going to be part of a long lifetime body of experimentation.

Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it.

The bottom line is, you really have to commit to something if you're going to be successful in it.

Perfecting your craft is one of the main keys in being successful.

You gotta pick yourself up. Sometimes you just gotta do it over and over, but you gotta do it. You can't give up. I wouldn't give up. I didn't give up - or doubt myself - in becoming a successful musician with a successful band.

The successful entrepreneurs that I see have two characteristics: self-awareness and persistence. They're able to see problems in their companies through their self-awareness and be persistent enough to solve them.

Starting out with music, I was very successful, and me getting into film, I definitely look forward to giving it my all. What you put in is what you get out.

I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

Let's just say that I've spent a lot of time being not very successful.

What I've learned is that if you really want to be successful at something, you'll find that you put the time in. You won't just ask somebody if it's a good idea, you'll go figure out if it's a good idea.

A successful man is built of 1,000 failures.

Remarkably successful people habitually do what other people won't do. They go where others won't go because there's a lot less competition and a much greater chance for success.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

It's almost as if the most successful people don't put too much effort into being so brilliant at what they do, that they're just doing extraordinary things. The truth, however, is they're putting more and more effort into maintaining their levels of excellence.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.

Although the odds are you're not gonna get the acting job you go out for, it's easier to successfully audition than it is to sit down for a few months and write a movie that's going to actually sell.

I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment.

The number of people who have successfully scaled a company from dream to post-IPO success - you could list them on the fingers of two hands.