Laura van den Berg Quotes

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

I can't stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when I was seven, but I walked off when my eyes began to sting. She said to me, 'You start something and you finish it', and that stuck with me. I'm persistent.

I'm the kind of guy that once I decide I'm going to do something I have a hard time just giving up on it without giving it a fair shot.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Whatever I do in life, my parents always taught me to focus on that, and they never let me quit.

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

I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.

I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.

The people who get bored and want to get out of a long-run aren't the people who actually like to act.

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.

If I start something I am going to finish it.

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.

I stay motivated no matter what.

Persistence is self-discipline in action.

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 can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

Persevere and get it done.

I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.

Never, never, never give up.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop.

When I decide to do something, I do it.

I don't think I have discipline when it comes to anything.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.