When you put your hand to the plow you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
Having been engaged rather a lot of times, Zsa Zsa Gabor was asked whether a lady should give back the ring. Her answer?"Of course dahlink, but first, you take out all the diamonds.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
No one succeeds without effort. ... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.
I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world but I succeeded because I keep going and going and going.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
I know not what it is about you that makes me go crazy but I do know that the radiance in your eyes is more dazzling than that in all the diamonds of this world!
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
If you want to see the sun shine you have to weather the storm.
As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.
I bend but I do not break.
Out of the strain of the Doing Into the peace of the Done.
As long as one keeps searching the answers come.
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
I've been failing for like ten or eleven years. When it turns it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period get the movie out and put my things in order.
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.
I know the price of success: dedication hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
To be happy drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next time."
I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.