Bryce Courtenay Quotes

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all the odds.

I never listened to people who said I wasn't going to make it.

I'm going to keep giving my best so that the people who don't believe in me start to do so, and enjoy things with me.

Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.

People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

Stopping before you reach the goal does not make the discouragement go away. All it does is make the discouragement permanent. Instead, keep going, keep making the attempt, until you make that last, fulfilling attempt that brings the success you desire.

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

TALENT PROVIDES HOPE FOR ACCOMPLISHMENT, BUT PERSEVERANCE GUARANTEES IT.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.

Never give up on your dreams.

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.

I keep my feet on the ground, keep dedicated, keep focused, underestimate nobody and obviously you need the ability, talent and everything else that goes with it.

At the end of the day, the only thing I can do is keep working on it, keep giving myself chances, and it's going to happen.

I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

Desire and determination must overcome disappointment.

Without patience, there can be no genius

Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things

All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

My whole life everyone always said 'it can't be done', 'you'll never do it', 'you will fail', 'no one has ever gone from Austria and become a Mr Universe, blah, blah, blah', or when I ran for governor people were sceptical. It was 'you're going to lose' and 'people don't take people from show-business seriously in politics'. So, I've heard all the 'it's impossible' thing but I didn't pay any attention because I believed that I could do it.

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.

Nothing is ever a setback. If anything, it just motivates you for what's next.