I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.
We must endure what fortune sends.
Slow motion gets you there faster.
Let no one 'til his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labor done: Then bring your gauges.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy...
I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.
Anything I get to wear to the Met Ball is huge. I'm not a fashion girl, so it's cool to be dolled up and have those diamonds where they send armed guards with you.
All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
You give ioo percent in the first half of the game and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.
I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.
For a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again.
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
If at first you don't succeed you're running about average.
The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong.
I don't buy diamonds, I don't buy cars, but I enjoy travelling. I'm not a very possessive person as far as things go.
Life has no smooth road for any of us and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend "over steep ways to the stars " fulfills...
How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!