Quotes About Perseverance

I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well.

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

I don't have any interest in cashing out or leaving the business or doing something else. I just love Subway, and I want to keep focusing on the company for the benefit of all our franchise owners. So I'm kind of like married to the job.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.

We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.

You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.

I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

There's no more powerful lesson than knowing that your setbacks will one day help you succeed.

Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed. You are not going to get anywhere just sitting on your butt and moping around.

If you compromise, and then you succeed, that's another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it's two failures at least.

I feel like there is a part of me that represents a minority in the U.S., a minority around the world. People who struggle, people who want to succeed with drive and ambition.

I don't know what drives me to succeed.