Irving Stone Quotes

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.

I can just put my head down and train hard.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

You power through it word by word, line by line.

I am not one to chicken out.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

No one step back, that is the idea.... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us!.... What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards.... Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.

Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid!

I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

And If I fly or if I fall, at least I can say I gave it all.

It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

If you cant be brave then be determined. And you will end up in the same place.

Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.

This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.

I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.

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