Quotes Tagged "success"

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

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.

It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker, old pard! Just draw on your grit, it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas, but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

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.

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.

Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.

Plodding wins the race.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

A winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.

There's such a thin line between winning and losing.

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.

In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance.