Carole King Quotes

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

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.

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.

You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

Stay the course.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

It had been better not to begin a good work, than to think of desisting from one which has been begun.

We never quit.

I just hope everybody knows I never quit.

I will continue to act for as long as I can.

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

If you are hardworking and determined, you will make it and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

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

There is no secret, you try and never stop trying. If you have to sleep all day, and get up the next day, you keep trying. If you have to take 3 years away, do it and then come back. But it's all about trying. Not everything will work, but some things will, and you have to try.

Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.

I persist in performing.

If you believe in something, you must will it through, because everything gets in the way. Everyone tries to steer the ship off course.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.

I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance.

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.