Quotes by Authors - Page 132

I'm not there yet but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
Anonymous
One thing at a time all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.
J. G. Hubbard
Be content to grow a little each day. If the improvement is the sort of thing which is very slow do not measure it too often. Do a self-comparison every two weeks or every six months whatever is appropriate.
Lewis E Presnall
Slow and steady wins the race.
Robert Lloyd
It's the steady constant driving to the goal for which you're striving not the speed with which you travel that will make your victory sure.
Anonymous
Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship sailing across endless oceans never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly unexpectedly it will find mooring for a moment.
Etty Hillesum
By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running.
Anonymous
Live with no time out.
Simone de Beauvoir
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
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
G.K. Chesterton
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
We rate ability in men by what they finish not by what they begin.
Anonymous
There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something then disseminating it.
Jane Alexander
Out of the strain of the Doing Into the peace of the Done.
Julia Louise Woodruff
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
There's such a thin line between winning and losing.
John R. Tunis
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled have persevered when others gave up in despair have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial industry and singleness of purpose. As a result they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Grenville Kleiser
A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.
Anonymous
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
William J. H. Boetcker
Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
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
Persistence is the master virtue. Without it there is no other.
Anonymous
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
B.C. Forbes
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
Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and if you know anything about their careers you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.
B.C. Forbes
They who are the most persistent and work in the true spirit will invariably be the most successful.
Samuel Smiles
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
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Night when deep sleep falleth on men.
Anonymous
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
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A.J. Liebling
He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.
George Ade
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
Clifton Fadiman
Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Finley Peter Dunne
I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy they will headline that tragedy.
Harry A. Overstreet
By evil report and good report.
Anonymous
Spick and span new.
Miguel de Cervantes
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
Elizabeth Fuller
Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.
Douglas Jerrold
Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.
D.H. Lawrence
Never give in never give in never never never never - in nothing great or small large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Winston Churchill
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
I was never less alone than when by myself.
Edward Gibbon
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.
Billy Rose
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
Oscar Wilde
Never eat more than you can lift.
Miss Piggy
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James