Staying the Course Quotes

I think we stick with what we know.

Most people in life, give up too early.

I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do.

If your dream requires patience, give it.

You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.

You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted.

We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?.

Doing as much as you can for as long as you can - that's the motto.

President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a funeral of a soldier who has fallen in Iraq.

If what you are doing is working, DON'T change just to be different. Just get better.

It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.

You will never see the end, if you give up in the middle

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.

I really don't have much respect for the people who live their lives motivated by an exit strategy existing, being performed. There was no option that we were trained in that says, 'If it gets too hard, get up and leave.'

In the end, it's all about perseverance.

These days I think people give up too easily. Everyone says it’s about compromise, which it is. Love, compromise, promises, presents help. But ultimately it’s about not giving up. People are led to believe that if it’s not perfect then just ditch it and change it, these days. That’s a mistake.

When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.

One thing I take pride in is that I never cracked and stopped playing hard. There's something to be said for that, because life doesn't always throw the best situations at you.

My dad always told me that perseverance furthers. He was right.

We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.

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

Patience is, in and of itself, a great challenge and it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming impasse.

If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.

The most important thing is to stay the course - not to get shaken out of the market during a difficult time.