Chuck Brown Quotes

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

When you're young, you want things to happen right away. And sometimes that doesn't always develop in the way you want it to. But my thing was to continue to work, in whatever element I could.

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Younger songwriters will ask me, 'What did you do?' And it's like, 'Well, I worked a day job, and I didn't stake anything. I didn't quit my day job. I didn't have any hopes at all. I just did the thing that I believed in, and I waited a long time.'

You can have it all, but not all at once.

I didn't get one word published until I was well into my 30s. But I always tried.

Patience pays off.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

Success comes but with time. People want to achieve things very quickly; they are not patient.

It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.

Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.

At the end of the day, the only thing I can do is keep working on it, keep giving myself chances, and it's going to happen.

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience

Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.