Neil Sedaka Quotes

I always tell people, start with what you're passionate about. If you truly are passionate, you'll keep it up.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

If you're passionate about something and stick with it, even if your friends aren't doing it, it'll pay off. It can be really rewarding to stick to your guns.

If you get into something that you're passionate about, and if you really believe in it, you gotta get up every day and fight.

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it.

This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

Passion means finding a way.

At the end of the day, if you're passionate about something, be passionate about it. And be totally and ridiculously passionate about it.

There's many times people told me I couldn't do something or couldn't work for it - it just made me more hungry.

Persevere. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something, because nothing would happen.

There are so many people telling you no, but if you love what you do, no one can stop you.

Like I tell myself all the time, you have to keep shooting. I'm not going to stop shooting.

I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'

Hold on to your dream, no matter what it takes.

For all those, who ever think of giving up and give in what others have to say, I would say hold onto your dream and watch it come alive, just like mine.

Keep believing. You may be tired, discouraged, but don't give up on your future.

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do, don't give up.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

Do not let your fire go out.

Carry on! Carry on! Fight the good fight and true; Believe in you mission, greet life with a cheer.

There are stories in the Bible about people telling other people how to do things. When you hear this young man say "we don't give up," that's something human beings who win will tell you every time. Breaks will happen. When they happen, you keep the same mind about what you're doing. It's about we the people getting on with our lives and doing it that way.