Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

A person who refuses to give up will always succeed eventually.

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

In every human endeavor, persistence is everything.

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.

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!

Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Never give up! And remember, determination is as important as talent.

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

Never give up on your dreams.

Perseverance is a great element of success.

The only reason I have the career I have is that I didn't quit.

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.

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

The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

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.

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.

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.

Persistence is the most traveled path to success.

If we grow weary and give up, the goal remains for someone else to achieve.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.