Rita Mae Brown Quotes

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

I don't think my determination has ever put me into trouble because of this, in fact, I think it is one of my main strengths and makes me the player that I am - without it I wouldn't be the same.

Weakness never got anyone anywhere.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.

As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.

My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.