Ryan Howard Quotes

Perseverance is a great element of success.

I haven't met anybody who hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that.

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.

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

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.

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

I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.

It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

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

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

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

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

Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win

There’s an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: ‘The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.’

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!

He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.

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

There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.