Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

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

Obviously 1,500 is a lot of hits, but I've got to keep going.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

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

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

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.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

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

If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.

In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Failure is a word unknown to me.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

Dreams do come true. If anyone's proof of that, it's me.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Failure is impossible.

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

For me it was just important to play my game and believe until the end. Even now, Venus is not in the top 10, but you can still feel she can be back again.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.