Anthony Trollope Quotes

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

Everything yields to diligence.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

Hell itself must yield to industry.

If you are hardworking and determined, you will make it and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.

I don't have talent. I have tenacity.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

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.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.