Honore de Balzac Quotes

No matter where you want to go, as long as you follow your path with faith, dedication and hard work, you are going to get there.

You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

Never be frightened by those you assume have more talent than you do, because in the end energy will prevail. My formula is: energy plus talent and you are a king; energy and no talent and you are still a prince; talent and no energy and you are a pauper.

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

Thou didst thy best, that is success.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

You can use the same motto for everything in life. If you put that effort in, you'll get what you want.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

No man fails who does his best.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.

Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed.

My mom always told me the more you try, the more you will succeed in everything you set out to do.

You've just got to keep playing and keep working hard to get where you're supposed to be.

I believe that if you stay positive and you keep your nose to the ground and you keep working hard for every inch that eventually will pay off and something will roll your way.

I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.

Self-belief is the key to success and that has helped me. So I will put in all my efforts in the manner I know. If it works, it is great and if it doesn't it's still great as I know I have put in all my effort.

I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow.

The most successful people in the world aren't usually the brightest. They are the ones who persevere.

I don't have Romário's technique, [Marc] Overmars' pace or [Patrick] Kluivert's strength. But I work harder than the others. I'm like the student who is not as clever, but revises for his exams and does OK in the end.

Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.