Quotes About Persistence

When you have a big vision, if you focus on that vision, you'll get it. But most people quit because it gets too hard.

I'm amazed by the ground that I covered. The music's the number-one thing. And if it isn't, you better quit now.

If you've never quit anything, you really ought to try. And if at first you don't succeed, try again.

That's something to be proud of - to have people say that you're the kind of guy who doesn't know how to quit. Try to be that man the next time you foul up: You'll enjoy more success than you ever would by cursing the guys living the charmed lives.

When you're in that position - when things are crumbling around you - the thing to remember always is that, 'If I quit, this is all it's ever going to be. It's never going to get better.'

The guys have told me not to quit my day job.

It's up to the individual to decide when he wants to quit.

I constantly have people who quit their jobs just to go on the Internet and try to stop me at any and all costs.

I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.

Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.

Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he's still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit!

After 87 pictures in 47 years, I knew when to quit.

I quit karate originally because it wasn't something that I was initially passionate about.

People ask you all the time, 'Why do you do this? Why don't you quit, man, take your money and go home?' I just do it because I love making music.

People ask me, 'Why are you still writing books?' Like I'm still only writing to make money and as soon as I have enough I'll quit and go fishing? I like to write books. It's the most satisfying thing I do.

Whatever I do in life, my parents always taught me to focus on that, and they never let me quit.

If you don't know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there.

My parents never discouraged me. There were a couple times when my dad criticized a couple things that I did, but it was nothing. So through the bad shows, I never wanted to quit.

I've never thought I wanted to quit in my research. I would always fail in experiments, which I did at least three times a day.