Thomas Massie Quotes

It gets hard no matter what it is you're doing - school, work - the only way you're going to do it is if you stay consistent and focused.

When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Never, never, never give up.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

You have to be committed or you fall behind, lose out.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

I don't stop when I am tired; I stop when I am done.

I just keep working.

Doing as much as you can for as long as you can - that's the motto.

I will play until I can't play anymore.

You have to stay focused and be mentally tough. That's what I've really learned: every day is a grind, and you have to go hard.

The key to anyone's success is staying with it!

Whenever I do something, I tend to focus on it and spend all of my time and energy on it.

I will continue to act for as long as I can.

I don't want to leave the field for a little thing. I try to be ready every day.

I've just never liked giving up on anything.