Chris Arreola Quotes

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.

If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.

I love going after what I want and not stopping till I get it.

Without obsession, life is nothing.

Persistent in life? I think, yes, I am. I'm going to do something until I get it right.

I think commitment is inextricably linked with success, and rightly or wrongly, people with a fierce commitment to their goals - the Kanyes of this world - are really entertaining.

I know what I want, and I'm relentless in achieving what I want.

When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.

Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.

She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop.

Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

I've always been very driven and knew that to get where I wanted to go, I could never give up.

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Grit is that 'extra something' that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.