Bob Richards Quotes

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

One good quality in European peoples is their willingness to take risks. This is the chief source of their success …. Another of their good qualities is perseverance and … hard work.

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

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

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

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.

I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.

Madame, if it is possible, it has already been done; if impossible, it will be done.

Nations of great genius exhibit great patience.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by those who are doing it.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward

Genius is talent exercised with courage

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

What man can imagine, man can do.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.