Billy Strayhorn Quotes

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

I'm always moving forward.

I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet.

I am going to continue to get better and do great things.

I'm moving forward to do the best.

To me, every time it goes badly I see it as a good thing - because that means I'm one step closer to where I want to be.

If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.

Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.

Always dream. Never give up!

It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you to do more and not just be satisfied. I was always that way about my dancing, and that's how I am about whatever it is I tend to pursue.

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

We tried to convince people that we didn’t have to be last in everything.

One has to have hope. Without hope you can't get anywhere.

You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better.

Success is not a stop sign.