Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Brand

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

Rose Macaulay

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

Rich Mullins

When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed

Roger Ebert

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

William Arthur Ward

A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.

Rick Riordan

I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own.

Og Mandino

I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Og Mandino

Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

Eric Schmidt

Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.

Reid Hoffman

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

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.

Henry Ford

Whatever you resist will persist.

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.

Norman Vincent Peale

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.