John H. Johnson Quotes

I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.

The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

We'll succeed unless we quit.

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.

The key to all things is determination.

I will not retreat; I will find the strength to reach my goal.

When a person sets out to achieve something, one doesn't rest until the goal is achieved.

Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.

Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will.

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.

It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.

If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.

A warrior cannot lower his head - otherwise he loses sight of the horizon of his dreams.

One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true.

Hard work, courage and commitment - these are the key elements for success.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.

There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.

Become one of the rare people who don't know how to quit.

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.