Bob Parsons Quotes

If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.

There’s an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: ‘The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.’

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

It's perfectly okay to want to quit - as long as you don't.

Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: I shall try again and again, and I am bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but I have to defy the obstacles.

In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

We'll succeed unless we quit.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.

I still take losing out very seriously. But it inspires me that much more to move on. Quite often in my business, it's not the most talented people that succeed. Because they don't necessarily have the tenacity to deal with rejection.

One of the things is we tend to give up too soon. We get knocked down a couple of times, and we stay down. It's so important to get back up again.

Corky is the one who never gives up. I never gave up. He faces obstacles, and he couldn't always reach his goals. But he tries to reach his dreams.

There came a point where I did give up on music, but I'm the kind of person that when I face obstacles, I become more determined. It's just something weird within me.

I do believe that it's when you stop and give up that real failure takes place.

Do not allow setbacks to set you back.

What I always liked best about myself was my resilience, especially in this business with all the 'no's,' the doors closed in my face.

The only way you fail is if you quit. That has always sort of been pounded into my head.

Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.

Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.

I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.