Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

Don't say, 'I don't want to do this, because, whatever.' Don't give up on something. You got to work hard.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.

There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.

I learned pretty quickly that it's your WORK ETHIC that LEVELS THE PLAYING FIELD. Education helps, but I've met failures who have Ph.D.s. I believe the hardest worker is always going to win.

For most of the people who have a lot of success, it's because they were the ones who didn't quit. It's not necessarily because it was just laid out for them. It won't apply to all cases, but I think it's pretty good advice.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.

Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.