Quotes About Persistence

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

I just want to make sure that I'm competing every day and giving my best effort, because everything else just falls into place.

I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up.

Giving up is something a Lauda doesn't do.

You gain nothing from giving up.

Giving up is the first way to fail. It does not exist for me.

I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do.

Do I believe in giving up? No, I don't.

Between 2018 and 2020, I contemplated giving up the sport at various points.

There was no giving up. Trying and trying. That's what I'm all about.

I don't give in and I don't believe in giving up. This comes naturally to me, I know no other way.

I'm so glad that I didn't give up on myself and there were people who didn't give up on me.

When I speak to people I worked with when I was young, they constantly tell me they wish their students would work half as hard as I did. I was always one to get a lot more out of myself, seeing the glass as half-empty rather than half-full.

I actually had huge problems with my glasses steaming up all the time. I had to train very carefully around the limitations caused by wearing them.

You can get glory days, bad days but the most important thing is to just keep your head down and keep working because at the end of it all if you work hard everything is going to be fine.

You have to focus on the process. You cannot be glued to the results.

Television is not an easy medium, as keeping the audience glued to the TV screens day after day is something which requires a lot of effort.

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.

Advertising is a very fundamental need, so I don't think it's going to go away.

There were a lot of clubs interested in me - a lot, really. But Manchester United appeared and didn't go away. They absolutely wanted me, and it happened.

I have dreams where everything will disappear or go away, so I'm always working harder each year.

If you want something badly enough, you go for it.

If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.

My main advice is, if it's something you really want to do, then just go for it.