Harrison Ford Quotes

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.

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.

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.

If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

In every human endeavor, persistence is everything.

The world belongs to those who persevere.

Perseverance is a great element of success.

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

Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.

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.

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

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

And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

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.

When it comes down to it, determination has a greater impact than giftedness.

You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are.

Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.