Jayne Mansfield Quotes

Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.

He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below

Everything good requires sacrifices.

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Step by step, the road is long, but at the end you can touch a star.

But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracking a secure way over the pathless seas: the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.

Sometimes you have to crouch to conquer

Weakness never got anyone anywhere.

I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

I've always been stimulated by the sense of challenge.

The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.

Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

It's easy to dream about it ... Much harder to execute it ....Work!

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'

Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.

I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it's a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you're in the NHL.

Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets.

Once you say something, it stays said. I apologized to anyone who may have been hurt by what I said, and I really meant it. I am absolutely not interested in hurting anyone, or being mean or insensitive.

The higher up, the harder the fall.

Life means work, and hard work, if you mean to succeed.