Randy Pausch Quotes

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

I have never met a successful person that was a quitter. Successful people never, ever, give up!

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.

Never give up on what you really want to do

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

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

Practical dreamers do not quit.

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

Never give up if it is something that you really want.

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will.

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.

To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.

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.

Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give 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!!!

Entrepreneurs don't finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.

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

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.

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.

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

Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. I lost three times before I got elected. There's no limit. Stay in pursuit of your dreams.

Persistence is the most traveled path to success.

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.