Wilbur Smith Quotes

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

Not many people get up after a setback or two. But those who do make the impossible come true.

There aren't many hits like 'Kinky Boots,' so when you get one, the gratitude that comes with it fuels your energy. From the time I started in this business, everybody told me that who I was and what I represented would never work. Well, I get to stand on stage every day and prove the naysayers wrong by doing exactly what they told me not to do.

You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

I was told millions of times that I was never going to achieve what I set out to, but I decided to do it, and I did it.

People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.

It was tough to fail year after year. I never even got to the final stage until I got my card on the Web.com Tour. But I always believed that I could be something special. I just had to prove it to myself.

Before I was a champion, I failed, and I was afraid.

I was told by thousands of people I would never make it.

To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.

Because failure isn't an option if success is just a matter of more effort.

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.

No one thought I would be successful. Everyone thought I would fail. You have no idea how much courage it took for me to do this.

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

I think with challenges, you either overcome them or you fall behind and become a statistic.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out.