Cass Elliot Quotes

Be patient. Be confident in yourself. Anything can happen if you really work at it. Never give up. It‘s corny, but never give up.

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things

Never be frightened by those you assume have more talent than you do, because in the end energy will prevail. My formula is: energy plus talent and you are a king; energy and no talent and you are still a prince; talent and no energy and you are a pauper.

A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.

As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.

I think people appreciate that I've been around so long, and I never gave up on myself and just kept grinding, and eventually I made it to the top.

People often ask me for the secret to success. Usually, they mean success in the music industry, but I think the answer applies to most things in life: always persevere and never give up.

The secret to my success is persistence.

I am where I am because I believed and I never gave up.

Take "no" as an encouragement to redouble his efforts, so it was easier to say "yes" right away.

Perseverance is a great element of success.

Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.

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.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

No matter where you want to go, as long as you follow your path with faith, dedication and hard work, you are going to get there.

Never give up. Just follow your dreams because this business can be so hard sometimes. It doesn't happen overnight where you get an audition or even a callback and get the role. It takes time.

It takes a lot of hard work to achieve your dreams, but nothing in life is easy. If it's something you really want, go after it!

Work hard, believe in your dreams, follow your dreams, don't give up, don't let failures hold you back. Those things were preached to me. They've taken a firm rooting system in my beliefs and what I'm passing on to my kids.

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

Failure turns into success. It looks like it happens overnight to other people, but it's just one person's determination to get past a certain goal. Everybody thinks it's an overnight success, but it's not. It's something someone has been working very, very hard on, and more than likely, has been too embarrassed to tell anybody. No one really wants to show other people their failures. They want to show their success.

Remember to always dream. More importantly, work hard to make those dreams come true and never give up.

Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.