Janet Jackson Quotes

I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I was 17, which was too young, in retrospect, and finally went when I was 21. I just kept plugging away. Determined? Yeah, I think I was.

Never give up on what you really want to do

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 have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.

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

I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.

If you really want something, you just have to promise yourself that you won't stop until it happens.

I like to think of myself as a very passionate person, and as very determined. So, if I set my mind on something, I definitely stop at no end to find within myself the power to keep going, whether that involves thinking of a new approach to a problem, or physically challenging myself.

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

You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.

Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.

Drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.

If you work hard and be persistent, you will achieve whatever you want to do.

Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality

You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I'm a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I've been successful. If you tell me no, I'll work even harder!

I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.

I've always surrounded myself with people who are driven. You can be gorgeous, but if you don't want to work for it, nothing is not going to happen.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

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.

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

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.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.