Matthew McConaughey Quotes

Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and over.

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

It had been better not to begin a good work, than to think of desisting from one which has been begun.

The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.

Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

If you want change, you've got to stick with it.

Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.

Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

I just keep working.

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

The hardest thing for me is to be patient and realize that it's not all going to happen right now. I just have to keep digging away, digging away. Just keep working on my game.

I want to be that consistent all year. I want to play the same way all 82 games. I want to be consistent every night.

I have to keep doing my job every single week in, week out.

I try to play the same way, play the same way over a longer period of time.

One of the things that I like to pride myself on is being the guy who sees the game through till the end.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

Being inspired is fine for a week, and being motivated might work for a month or so, but to make any lifestyle change last a lifetime, you need dedication.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.