A. J. Liebling Quotes

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

Always it's like big challenge for me. Every point is a big challenge. So I do everything I can.

If you really put your mind to it, anything is possible.

It's never just about talent, it's about a lot more than that.

The only thing I can do is work hard.

I don't know how to get anything done except getting on my knees and pleading for help and then getting on my feet and going to work.

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

I'm going to do everything I can, so that I don't look back and say I didn't do everything.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

At one point in my 20s, I was about to quit acting. I'd had a crappy couple of years and I was depressed. My mom said, 'Don't give up! You'll be so mad at yourself.'

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

You can achieve only that which you will do.

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

I can just put my head down and train hard.

You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.

Banish the words 'I can't' from your vocabulary. Remember: If 'can't' equals 'won't', 'can' equals 'will.'

Success is dependent on effort.