Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Quotes

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.

I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

The world belongs to those who persevere.

I just want to work hard. I love that feeling.

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.

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

I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.

I'm not gonna give up, shut up, or let up, until I'm taken up... as a matter of fact, I'm just getting warmed up.

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try, and keep trying, for there is nothing to lose by trying and a great deal to gain if successful. By all means TRY! Do it NOW!!!

It's how tenacious you are that will determine your success.

I never gave up. I never quit. I've been a leader all my life, from elementary school to president of my class to excelling at college. I had a dream, and my dream sustained me. I wasn't going to let anything stand in my way. I was like a meteorite. I wanted to become a star. It's been quite a journey.

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.

It takes a lot of hard work to achieve your dreams, but nothing in life is easy. If it's something you really want, go after it!

It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to achieve, but the will to labour energetically and perseveringly. Hence energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man-in a word, it is the Man himself.

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

You always have to strive

You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.

My drive is still cool, it's not like how when I first began. I don't think anyone's drive is the same.

To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips.

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