I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.
I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter and then one day somebody gives you a job you can say "Gee I was lucky I happened to go...
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.
The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running.
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
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.
Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.
If something is boring after two minutes try it for four. If still boring try for eight sixteen thirty-two and so on. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort a little more patience...
This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.
He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.
Only yield when you must never "give up the ship " but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!"
Keep breathing.
People can bear anything.
We must learn from life how to suffer it.
And let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.
Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.
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