Seamus Heaney Quotes

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

He believes that "To persevere is favorable."

In the end, it's all about perseverance.

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

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

Persistence is worth at least as much as talent. The writing life is not a series of gentle encouragements. It's more like a series of brutal kicks in the teeth. Those who grow a thick enough skin to persevere, survive. Those who do not, do not.

However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.

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

Success is a worn down pencil.

The world belongs to those who persevere.

Perseverance is a great element of success.

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on

You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.

I always, always got to be the last man standing.

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up.

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

The other day the grass was brown, now its green cuz I ain't give up. Never surrender.

Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back. It took me 14 years to get where I am. I'm going to hang in there.

The race doesn't always belong to the swift nor the battle to the strong. It belongs rather to those who run the race, who stay the course and who fight the good fight.

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

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

For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball. There's winning and there's losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what's never been acceptable to me is quitting.

Never give up; just absolutely never give up.

If what you are doing is worth doing, hang in there until it is done.