Sarah Dessen Quotes

Perseverance brings good luck.

In the long run, it's impossible to make progress without sometimes having setbacks, although people who get lucky on their first attempt sometimes forget this.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!

I've failed hundreds of thousands of times.

I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

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.

Lady Luck smiles on those who continue their efforts

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.

Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.

If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.