Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Brown

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

Kim Brown

It could be synergistic, to buoy the success of that program,

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Rebecca West

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Russell Crowe

I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.

Ron Conway

As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure.

Richard DeVos

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

William James

If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!

Morgan Freeman

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

Kevyn Aucoin

My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.

Henry David Thoreau

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Manfred von Richthofen

Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.

Manny Pacquiao

Anyone will succeed in whatever field of endeavor in life by acquiring the same virtues and character that boxing world champions do - dedication, perseverance, courage, extreme self-discipline and prayers

John C. Maxwell

TALENT PROVIDES HOPE FOR ACCOMPLISHMENT, BUT PERSEVERANCE GUARANTEES IT.

James Russell Lowell

Endurance is the crowning quality...

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.

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.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

Jim Lovell

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Albert Einstein

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.