Octavia E. Butler Quotes

TALENT PROVIDES HOPE FOR ACCOMPLISHMENT, BUT PERSEVERANCE GUARANTEES IT.

Be patient. Be confident in yourself. Anything can happen if you really work at it. Never give up. It‘s corny, but never give up.

If you can keep going and never give up, ultimately you will get something that you really want.

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things

Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success.

Never give up. Just follow your dreams because this business can be so hard sometimes. It doesn't happen overnight where you get an audition or even a callback and get the role. It takes time.

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. In fact, in studying the source of people's success, I've found that persistence overshadows even talent as the most valued and effective resource in creating and shaping the quality of life. Most people give up a maddening five feet from their goal!

You have many options in life, never make giving up one of them

Work hard, believe in your dreams, follow your dreams, don't give up, don't let failures hold you back. Those things were preached to me. They've taken a firm rooting system in my beliefs and what I'm passing on to my kids.

Never give up. In the end it'll all be worth it.

If we grow weary and give up, the goal remains for someone else to achieve.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

My advice is precisely the advice my mother gave me. If you believe you have talent, the next thing you must have is determination. If you keep working, keep striving, and try always to move forward a little bit with every job you do, you'll eventually make it. And I believe that!

I feel like you can hope and dream and wish, but until you do, nothing is going to happen. So whatever you're passionate about, whatever your hopes and dreams are, you have to go full-steam ahead. But of course I have my moments where I'm trying so hard, and it never seems to break through. It's always when you want to give up that something's going to happen, right? So you just can't give up.

Don’t give up. You’ll regret it.

Success is like pumping an old well handle. You have to pump a very long time before you get water. But don't give up or you will have to start all over again.

Giving up is the only sure way to fail.

I just want to inspire all those people who gave up and said 'I quit,' Never give up!

Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.