Quotes About Persistence

I'd been going to college for nine years, and before I completed my dissertation, I quit.

I played every sport in high school for one year. If I couldn't be great at it, I quit. I would rather not do it than be average.

One thing I don't do is quit.

I would never quit comedy to make money. I've been doing it, like, 30 years. I still love it. That's my life.

I think people who really want to do something do it. No matter what. And they won't quit until they do it.

I'm a person that, once I start something, I can't just quit it.

There's moments where things are harder than others, and there are obviously questions, but when it comes down to it, there is no quit in me.

It's easy to quit. It's easy to not get something that you want and just say, 'Well, that didn't work out,' and move on to the next thing.

When I started in fashion, for the first 10 years, I said to myself every day, 'I'm going to quit tomorrow.'

I never quit hustling.

You cannot imagine how many people called, how many letters, how many emails. Every place I go, people ask me, 'Please, don't quit.'

When I'm in full-on writing mode and have the day, I try to get in my office around 10 A.M. and stop once 'Judge Judy' comes on at 4, when I quit and come down. Sometimes, I leave her on while I edit - if she can make the tough calls, then so can I.

I get tired when I keep shorting my sleep, but I always make it to the gym. In our house, we live by this: 'Never quit, never cancel, never be late.' We've found it's a great way to live.

It's always discouraging to lose. You look at it and think, 'Man, what's going on?' It's always discouraging. But I'm a fighter. I don't like to quit.

The only thing as a kid that really mattered to me was that I wouldn't quit. When I say 'quit,' I mean you wake up, you go to the piano, you go to whatever instrument, and you work at learning how to tell the truth.

I was raised, right or wrong, you make a decision and you don't quit. You fight your way through it; that's what you did.

The only way you fail is if you quit. That has always sort of been pounded into my head.

Walk away from medical professionals who dismiss your concerns, and don't quit searching until you find someone who will truly partner with you to find the answers you deserve.

You should never quit your day job.

I'm the type of person that doesn't quit. I just keep going and give my best effort because I don't want to look back on my life when I'm, like, 80 or 90 and say, 'Man, I wish I would have done this, I wish I would have done that.' I basically go out and do it.

I had to quit everything. I had to give it all for music.

We never quit.

I don't think many people want to say to themselves that they've quit. At the same time, we've all failed in our lives, we've all failed at different things in different ways and I think there's a lot to be said about facing that failure squarely.

I don't think I will be able to quit small screen.