Jim Clyburn Quotes

Sometimes the things we want most are the hardest to get. That means you need to be even more determined to succeed. That's what it takes to be a winner. You have to want it bad enough to stick with it no matter how tough things get.

Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

Persistence is the most traveled path to success.

We'll succeed unless we quit.

I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up, never stop.

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

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.

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

If we fail, let us try again and again until we succeed.

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.

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

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

Steadiness is coming up short 19 times and succeeding the twentieth.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

Never give up on what you really want to do

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

If you want something bad enough, never give up (and take a boost when offered).

If you're really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you're going to get it.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily. If I've learned one thing in all my years in the business, it's that often things don't work out the way you want at first. But that doesn't mean you should give up.

...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

I applied to be an astronaut four times. I was rejected three times before I was accepted. So, it's about that, not - following your dream and not giving up.