Lou Holtz Quotes

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

Sticking to it is the genius.

I'm disciplined. And I'm persevering. And I don't give up very easily... and I'm reliable.

When some people have a difficult job to do, they give up everything else until that job is finished. Others just give up.

If you really want something, you just have to promise yourself that you won't stop until it happens.

There was no giving up. Trying and trying. That's what I'm all about.

What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.

Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.

I keep my feet on the ground, keep dedicated, keep focused, underestimate nobody and obviously you need the ability, talent and everything else that goes with it.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up.

Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

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.

What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. In fact, in studying the source of people's success, I've found that persistence overshadows even talent as the most valued and effective resource in creating and shaping the quality of life. Most people give up a maddening five feet from their goal!

Never give up on what you really want to do

You have to be un-compromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared. Commitment cannot be compromised by rewards.

It's been said that commitment is another name for success.

If what you are doing is worth doing, hang in there until it is done.

We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We're just going to stay the course.

I want to be the person that is the first person there and the last person to leave. That's who I want to be, because I think the road to success is through commitment, and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard. And it is going to get hard and you're going to want to quit sometimes, but it'll be colored by who you are, and more by who you want to be.

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

If you hang in there long enough, you will eventually reach your goal.

Never give up. Never give up. Never give up.