Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wesley Morris

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

Wangari Maathai

What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger.

Yukio Mishima

For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.

Walter Kirn

At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence is what politicians, seducers and currency speculators have, but persistence is a quality found in termites. It's the blind drive to keep on working that persists after confidence breaks down.

James Joyce

[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

Napoleon Hill

You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power.

Austin Phelps

Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success

John D. Voelker

Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

Duo Maxwell

Just my luck... Not even the self-destruct is working...

Ted Pappas

Joe's a wonderful actor and has had a terrific career. We're lucky to have him back in Pittsburgh.

Howard Stern

I actually wish Rosie a lot of luck.

Sara White

He just wanted to play football. He would have played for free. But luckily we had an agent.

Miguel Tejada

He's always been tough. He didn't play around with nobody today. You (were) lucky to get a hit.

Ram Kapoor

I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.

Michael Ryan

He is just amazing. I'm always lucky to have him.

Ron Atkinson

Their forward got a lucky squeeze from the defender.

Rex Stout

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

Richard Whately

The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.

William Morris

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

Samuel Smiles

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

Richard Ford

Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

Robin Leach

The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.

Walter Lippmann

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

William Hazlitt

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Leo Tolstoy

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.