Quotes by Authors - Page 54

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 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
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Caroline L. Gascoigne
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
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten and to leave off fighting at once.
Samuel Butler
I know the price of success: dedication hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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
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
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith
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 voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
Madame de Stael
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
The lesser evil is also evil.
Naomi Mitchison
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
It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
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
Excellence in any pursuit is the late ripe fruit of toil.
W. M. L. Jay
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that is not enough that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher
If a man wakes up famous he hasn't been sleeping.
Wes Izzard
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
It is weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.
Joanna Field
One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.
James A. Worsham
Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
Where there is a brave man in the thickest of the fight there is the post of honor.
Henry David Thoreau
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
James Lane Allen
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.
George Horace Lorimer
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George
Nothing ventured nothing gained.
Anonymous
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go you gotta go.
Lillian Carter
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks.
Theodore Roosevelt
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
Christian Bovee
He that would have fruit must climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller
If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with you will not do much.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
All great reforms require one to dare a lot to win a little.
William L. O'Neill
If the risk-reward ratio is right you can make big money buying trouble.
Anonymous
Under normal periods any man's success hinges about five percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.
James A. Worsham
Pa he always said a man had to look spry for himself because nobody would do it for him your opportunities didn't come knocking around you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.
Louis L'Amour
If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up.
Anonymous
The brave man carves out his fortune and every man is the sum of his own works.
Miguel de Cervantes
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.
William J. H. Boetcker
No one can help you in holding a good job except Old Man You.
Edgar Watson Howe
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
B.C. Forbes
We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!
George Matthew Adams
Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
Thomas N. Carruther
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
The real difference between men is energy.
Thomas Fuller
If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you don't you have achieved half your failure.
David V. A. Ambrose
Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose that counts " probably lost.
Martina Navratilova
People are subject to moods to temptations and fears lethargy and aberration and ignorance and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.
Ilka Chase