Barack Obama Quotes

I just hope everybody knows I never quit.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance.

Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he's still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit!

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.

We never quit.

I was never brought up to be a quitter.

Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.

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

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

I think my secret is that there's no shortcuts for hard work, determination and having that don't give up attitude.

Never give up, no matter what.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.

I don't have talent. I have tenacity.

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.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

Giving up was never an option

Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting.

Never give up; just absolutely never give up.

You never lose until you actually give up.

The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.

Persistence is self-discipline in action.

There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.