Diego Luna Quotes

I am not someone that is going to give up. I just don't do that.

I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I was 17, which was too young, in retrospect, and finally went when I was 21. I just kept plugging away. Determined? Yeah, I think I was.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Americans never quit.

You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted.

Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened.

A lot of people gave up on us, but we kept kicking and making music.

Undertaker, right up until his last day, was working full time constantly, even when he was beat up, had fire in his eyes. If he couldn't walk, he was flying around, and he was The Undertaker in every way. That was such an inspiration.

I won't let anything stop me.

I don't give in and I don't believe in giving up. This comes naturally to me, I know no other way.

For the last three years that I have tried, people are laughing at me and saying that I was trying too hard. And my answer is yeah, I really am trying hard.

That's why I kept wrestling - I'm too dumb to realize I can't win, so I keep wrestling until I ultimately succeed. I'm pretty dang stubborn.

I love the relentless nature of a side that never gives up.

I've never been a player who's given up.

Perseverance is a great element of success.

I like to think of myself as a very passionate person, and as very determined. So, if I set my mind on something, I definitely stop at no end to find within myself the power to keep going, whether that involves thinking of a new approach to a problem, or physically challenging myself.

There's nothing I wouldn't do, no matter how dirty or hard.

I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

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.

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.

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

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

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.

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