Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

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

Determination and hard work are as important as talent.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

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

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.

Drive will take you much farther than talent ever could.

The big talent is persistence.

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

It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

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.

I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance.

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

The one thing that matters is the effort.

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 will keep working hard!

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

The key to all things is determination.

My motto is, 'Never quit.'

I decided a long time ago that I didn't have to be talented. I just had to be persistent.

Even in the minor leagues, I just said I'll get my little bit of time in here and then get out of here. I was going to try, though. I wasn't going to just give up. I was always going to try. I'm here. I figured I might as well try.

I'm not as talented as others, but I have a determination and will that enable me to work a lot harder than anyone else.