Phyllis Diller Quotes

I'm just not a quitter and I just never, ever give up. I was forced to adapt because if I didn't, I was losing inspiration only doing what I was doing.

Never give up, no matter what.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

I'm neither giving up nor giving in.

I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept flying.

Never give up; just absolutely never give up.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

I think my secret is that there's no shortcuts for hard work, determination and having that don't give up attitude.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.

A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

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

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.

I don't have talent. I have tenacity.

I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.

A person who refuses to give up will always succeed eventually.

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.

We must find opportunities to make change happen - we must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.

Giving up was never an option

I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.

You never lose until you actually give up.

The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.

Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.