Tony Rock Quotes

You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.

I just showed up at the Comedy Store. You keep showing up, and you keep showing up, and eventually, somebody notices.

That the longer you can work and stay in people's peripherals, the more likely folks might be to acknowledge you and know that you're there.

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

ll K Hamilton Some days the lion eats you, but some times you shove your arm down it's throat and pull it's visera out through it's mouth and kill it. Of course, sometimes it bites your arm off, and then eats you, but you tried, that's what counts. Some days it's not about winning, but about fighting. If you don't try, the lion will most definetely eat you. But sometimes when you put your all into something, and don't give up even when the odds are so against you, you surprise the lion and yourself, and you win.

Fight each round take it on the chin. And never never never ever give in.

I still have plenty of fight left in me.

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don't know. It's in my blood.

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.

When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

We fail when we give up too soon.

With the great people that you work with, it's that they're never giving up and they're never thinking something's finished until they've really, really run out of time. They keep pushing in case there's a better idea around the corner.

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance.

Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.

Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

Persistence is worth at least as much as talent. The writing life is not a series of gentle encouragements. It's more like a series of brutal kicks in the teeth. Those who grow a thick enough skin to persevere, survive. Those who do not, do not.

I suppose in order to succeed at something you have to be very persistent. I've never done that.

I refused to let go of what I had.