Channing Pollock Quotes

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.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

For most of the people who have a lot of success, it's because they were the ones who didn't quit. It's not necessarily because it was just laid out for them. It won't apply to all cases, but I think it's pretty good advice.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept trying to do things better, as anyone with ambition does. But just because you're trying doesn't mean you're always going to succeed.

If you can make it in Rockford, you can make it anywhere.

I wasn't a kid who won every tournament I was playing, and I think that helped me - it motivated me a lot to know what it felt like not to win.

You show me anybody that's great in anything they do, I'll show you somebody that's persevered, demonstrated that mental toughness to overcome some obstacles and adversity.

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

A lot of people that I started out with, I don't know where they are. I guess it takes tenacity to still be doing this, and luck, but I've been very blessed.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.