T. S. Eliot Quotes

Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving.

The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.

Success supposes endeavour.

You have to try, you have to try everything you can.

It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

What keeps me going? I guess it's just a desire to keep trying to contribute and do things in life.

Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.

I'm not scared to fail, I'm not scared to lose, I'm not scared to die, for that matter... It's going to work out the way it's supposed to work out.

What did you try hard at today?

The only constant I can find is hard work.

Anything I learned was just work hard, just keep working and don't worry about the outside stuff. Whatever happens will happen.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

I've been out with lots of other artists opening for them on tour, and you just learn that none of their success came easy - it was all hard work for them, and you have to buckle down and get ready for the hard work yourself, too.

I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.