Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

There's no such thing as an overnight success.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds.

Hard work pays off if you're patient enough to see it through.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

Persistent work triumphs.

Success is like pumping an old well handle. You have to pump a very long time before you get water. But don't give up or you will have to start all over again.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

To be somebody you must last.

Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success.

Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

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.

To know how to wait is the great secret of success.

There were some that said if you hung in long enough, the world would catch on, and they have.

Jack Nicholson didn't get anything until he was in his thirties. You have to persevere and put yourself in positions, and sooner or later, you will break through.

The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.

Obviously, you want to score every game, but you just have to be patient.

Progress takes time and discipline.

Hard work most often leads to success, but it's not every day, and it's not every week. It will pay off at different times over the course of your career.

If you do anything long enough, people can't ignore you anymore.

One bit of advice I can give people is to remember that anything worthwhile takes a long time.