James Whitcomb Riley Quotes

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.

You can accomplish anything with pure persistence and drive.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

The key to all things is determination.

Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

You can't win what you don't fight for.

The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.

I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up; they stopped. The biggest talent you can have is determination.

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.

There's a difference between winning and losing and not trying at all.

It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.

To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try, and keep trying, for there is nothing to lose by trying and a great deal to gain if successful. By all means TRY! Do it NOW!!!

Entrepreneurs don't finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.

It takes a lot of hard work to achieve your dreams, but nothing in life is easy. If it's something you really want, go after it!

It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to achieve, but the will to labour energetically and perseveringly. Hence energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man-in a word, it is the Man himself.

Drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.

You always have to strive

You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.