Quotes by American Authors - Page 44

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan Pearsall Smith
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Michael Korda
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington
It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor
A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man however should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert Einstein
Survival is triumph enough.
Harry Crews
Actually I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.
Monty Hall
Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.
Lisa M. Amos
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Willie Mays
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
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley
Flaming enthusiasm backed up by horse sense and persistence is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
If you don't quit and don't cheat and don't run home when trouble arrives you can only win.
Shelley Long
If you rest you rust.
Helen Hayes
The only thing that happens overnight is recognition. Not talent.
Carol Haney
Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
Julie Andrews
Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.
Jessye Norman
Once I decide to do something I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock you jump over it walk around it crawl under it.
Kitty Kelley
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
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 am not afraid of the pen or the scaffold or the sword. I will tell the truth whenever I please.
Mother Jones
I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."
Katherine Dunham
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.
Lisa Alther
There is no point at which you can say "Well I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."
Carrie Fisher
It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.
Sue Grafton
I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
James Gordon Bennett
We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated ... there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
Robert E. Lee
You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
George Cukor
If you can't accept losing you can't win.
Vince Lombardi
Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.
John Hays Hammond
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
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened vision cleared ambition inspired and success achieved.
Helen Keller
It is abundantly clear that success tends to negate humility.
Landrum P. Leavell
Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Some men succeed by what they know some by what they do and a few by what they are.
Elbert Hubbard
Success ... depends on your ability to make and keep friends.
Sophie Tucker
The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
Gloria Steinem
Will you be satisfied with the fruit of your life's work? Will the efforts you are making now bring you satisfaction when the things of time are receding and eternity looms ahead?
Raymond L. Cox
Many people who wonder why they don't amount to more than they do have good stuff in them and are energetic persevering and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts.
Walter J. Johnston
The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet have you lost your mind?
Janet Reno
I don't eat junk food and I don't think junk thoughts.
Peace Pilgrim
The great majority of successful business men and women have been and are possessors of strong personalities of the right sort and by analyzing their climb to success it is amazing to discover how large a part good manners good breeding and correct behavior have had in helping them to win the goal.
Ida White Parker
Vice Is nice But a little virtue Won't hurt you.
Felicia Lamport
Since when do grown men and women who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership " require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?
Meg Greenfield
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though it's intimate and psychological-resistant to generalization a mystery of the individual soul.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
Jane Addams
In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
James Lane Allen
It's in the preparation-in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.
Diane Sawyer
If a man wakes up famous he hasn't been sleeping.
Wes Izzard
Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results. It produces no results. Work continuous work and hard work is the only way to accomplish results that last.
Hamilton Holt
The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it.
Julia Child
One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.
James A. Worsham
There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues but they never make it they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.
Cookie Lavagetto