Terry Pratchett Quotes

Who longest waits most surely wins.

You kick around long enough, and good things can happen.

Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.

You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.

Greatness comes to those who wait.

You have to be patient and bide your time and hopefully your chance will come.

Racing is a funny industry. One week you can be going terrible and the next week you're on top of the world. So you just keep showing up: I keep working harder to get more opportunities, but what do you do - that's life.

'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!

The best advice my dad ever gave me is, ‘No does not mean never. It just means not yet.’ So not every audition, you’re gonna get but as long as you know it wasn’t meant for you then you’ll get the next one.

The Universe rewards calculated risk and passion

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.

You got to risk it if you want the biscuit.

Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.

When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

The people who are good in the long run fail a lot, especially at the beginning. So, when you fail early, it might be worth realizing that this is part of the deal, the price you pay for being good in the long run. Every rejection is a gift. A chance to learn and to do it better next time. An opportunity to figure out how to bounce, not break. Don't waste them.

Embrace failure. Never never quit. Get very comfortable with that uneasy feeling of going against the grain and trying something new. It will constantly take you places you never thought you could go. This has been my mantra for years. I always remember I won't do things right on the first try. So failure is mandatory for success!

There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.

What I've learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized.

Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.

Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.