Reshma Saujani Quotes

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

I had to work at it - audition and fail, get things and lose others. If you really want something, you keep going.

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.

Success is 99 percent failure.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.

Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Hearing 'no' a lot of times usually tells you either you're crazy or you're on the right track, and you don't know which one it is until you finally launch.

I had to work at everything.

There is no success without hardship.

There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.

A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

I've been knocked down a lot of times.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

If you think about it, there are a lot of parallels between a sportsman's journey and the acting journey. You face so much adversity and disappointment, and you can work incredibly hard for a long time with very little results, and then, hopefully, something happens.

I've carried my chip with me my entire career. I've had to fight and claw for every position I've had. I sat on the bench as a junior in high school, I had to compete my senior year in high school to get the job. I competed again at Vanderbilt before having success.