W. Clement Stone Quotes

The only failure is not trying.

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.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.

When it comes down to it, determination has a greater impact than giftedness.

You always have to strive

Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few marks are made in the world's history by eight-hour-day men.... Sir Joshua Reynolds had but one maxim for success: Work, work, work. Is not rigid and continuous training necessary for the making of strong athletes? Hard work is not fatal to real success. Vouloir c'est pouvoir.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

The key to all things is determination.

Even in the minor leagues, I just said I'll get my little bit of time in here and then get out of here. I was going to try, though. I wasn't going to just give up. I was always going to try. I'm here. I figured I might as well try.

I'm very much an admirer of people who are reaching for things and trying to survive.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.

Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.

I believe persistence is a major key to success in any great endeavor. I want to remind folks to PERSIST in whatever they are tackling at the moment!

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

I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up; they stopped. The biggest talent you can have is determination.

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.