Quotes by American Authors - Page 125

No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.
Douglas V. Steere
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.
Anne Shannon Monroe
You give ioo percent in the first half of the game and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.
Yogi Berra
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
Margaret Fuller
Slow motion gets you there faster.
Hoagy Carmichael
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard
I'm a slow walker but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two and I know it was not that blow that did it but all that had gone before.
Jacob A. Riis
The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.
Judith Krantz
It is a matter first of beginning-and then following through.
Richard L. Evans
In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
Amelia Earhart
I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
Erica Jong
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.
Katharine Hepburn
Business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit.
J. R. Todd
I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is why did other people stop?
William Stafford
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere or to do anything never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
Ulysses S. Grant
There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something then disseminating it.
Jane Alexander
Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When you put your hand to the plow you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
Alice Paul
I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.
Clare Boothe Luce
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's such a thin line between winning and losing.
John R. Tunis
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
William J. H. Boetcker
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills
The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it.... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.
Alex Haley
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task but you will succeed if you persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
Helen Keller
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley
I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter and then one day somebody gives you a job you can say "Gee I was lucky I happened to go up there today." But dammit I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working you almost make your own fortune.
Jerry Delia Femina
Flaming enthusiasm backed up by horse sense and persistence is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully prepare prayerfully proceed positively pursue persistently.
William A. Ward
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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.
Harrison Ford
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
I know the price of success: dedication hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world but I succeeded because I keep going and going and going.
Sylvester Stallone
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
And the night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
AH I know is what I see in the papers.
Will Rogers
Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
Wendell Phillips
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson
Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.
Fred Friendley
The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know the second is to find out who will tell you.
John Gunther
A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A.J. Liebling
What you see is news what you know is background what you feel is opinion.
Lester Markel
It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.
Wilbur F. Storey
News is the first rough draft of history.
Benjamin Bradlee
The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
Frank Miller
An editor - a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff and to see that the chaff is printed.
Elbert Hubbard
He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.
George Ade
The sports page records people's accomplishments the front page usually records nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
Clifton Fadiman
Don't be afraid to make a mistake your readers might like it.
William Randolph Hearst
Remember son many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.
James Gordon Bennett
Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Finley Peter Dunne