Staying Power Quotes

Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent.

At the beginning of my career, it was very hard to go up. Now, it's very hard to stay on top. You have to stay there, and I want to stay there so badly. I'm still standing.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

Sometimes durability's better than ability, especially in this crazy sport.

My father left me with a saying that I've carried my entire life and tried to pass on to our kids: 'Tough times don't last, tough people do,'

You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear after that. Maybe I've lucked out because I came back and went to work.

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.

Whatever I did on 'Saturday Night Live' is going to stay and remain on 'Saturday Night Live.'

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

I want to stay where I am. I'm stoked to be a country artist.

I've never left for New York. I've stood my ground here my whole career and hopefully will be able to until the day that I die.

We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.

To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.

You see so many musicians come and go. For me, it's really about the longevity in the music industry. It's not all about having a lot of hit records at one time.

Generally, a rally will have staying power, technicians say, if, in addition to price movements, it has heavy trading volume and breadth, meaning that several stocks rise for each stock that falls.

If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

When people are in the thrall of poisonous ideology, it's really not all about deliberate ill will, or inherent hatred, or a lack of intelligence. It's about the unbelievable destructiveness and staying power of bad ideas and about finding ways to equip people with the tools they need to fight them.

We were never the trendiest band, but we've always been here.

There is always room at the top but to arrive there and to stay there requires exceptional industry, exceptional qualifications and the courage to think along original lines.

But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.

You're never out of the game until you've lost the final point.

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

I'm hoping that other people can learn from me, both the mistakes I've made or the opportunities I've had, or for the decisions I've made: for instance, not to go and take a lot of different jobs in a lot of different places, but to stay in one place for most of my career.