In our day when a pitcher got into trouble in a game instead of taking him out our manager would leave him in and tell him to pitch his way out of trouble.
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere or to do anything never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
There's such a thin line between winning and losing.
Diamonds never leave you... men do!
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
If I see a door comin' my way I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door I'm sliding through the window.
Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.
In the clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody but unbowed.
Only yield when you must never "give up the ship " but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!"
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...
The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will...
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...
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.
Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.
We must learn from life how to suffer it.
People can bear anything.
We must endure what fortune sends.
Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished to endure unpleasantness discomfort and frustration.
There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.