David Livingstone Quotes

The key to all things is determination.

You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.

To finish first you must first finish.

Determination gets you a long way.

I love going after what I want and not stopping till I get it.

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

Never give up if it is something that you really want.

I think people who really want to do something do it. No matter what. And they won't quit until they do it.

I think commitment is inextricably linked with success, and rightly or wrongly, people with a fierce commitment to their goals - the Kanyes of this world - are really entertaining.

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

I know what I want, and I'm relentless in achieving what I want.

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.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

If you really want something bad enough, if you're really interested in something enough, you know, you just keep working on it.

I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Goals seem impossible only when you are not heading toward them.

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

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.