Denis Waitley Quotes

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.

I will keep working hard!

The key to all things is determination.

I never quit hustling.

Even in the minor leagues, I just said I'll get my little bit of time in here and then get out of here. I was going to try, though. I wasn't going to just give up. I was always going to try. I'm here. I figured I might as well try.

I have to keep moving and keep working hard.

No matter what comes, I will always work hard and do my best.

The message to the young players is that hard work and dedication is everything. As a footballer, or anything in life, if you're dedicated you have to fight for that and don't give up however hard it is.

Drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

I just have to keep working hard.

It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.