Brian Tracy Quotes

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.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance.

Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed.

Because you've done the horrible jobs, it gives you an even grittier determination to succeed.

The key to anyone's success is staying with it!

There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.

You never know when the break is going to come, so you have to keep plugging away.

I work really hard, and have had many opportunities to give up and throw the towel in. But I never did.

Being in bands and plugging away with not many opportunities and no money for many years really shaped me and taught me about work ethic.

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.

The most successful people in the world aren't usually the brightest. They are the ones who persevere.

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

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.

Perseverance is a great element of success.

Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

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.

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.