Samuel Barnett Quotes

I'm a great believer that if you knock on enough doors and stay at the level maybe an opportunity comes.

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.

No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.

If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you'll always have a chance.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.

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

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.

Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

It's hard to have any kind of luck in this business.

I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

I truly believe that you can't be a successful business unless there are hiccups. That American mentality of picking yourself up, brushing your shoulders off, and then really going for it makes you 100 times stronger and smarter.

There really isn't a formula for success.

A combination of tenacity and luck brought me here today.

Luck does play a huge role in whatever field you're practicing, whether that's medicine, acting, singing; but the way you make luck work for you is you constantly put yourself in a position to get lucky.

Sometimes you're going to win close fights, and that's the way it is.

I started every match knowing that this could be my day. It's like in life; you can have a bad business idea, but then you have a new one the next day and you just go for it.

I've never had it easy. There have been fortunate coincidences and instances, but nothing has fallen into my lap. Whatever I've achieved has always been through sheer hard work.

You never know when the break is going to come, so you have to keep plugging away.

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

It was a miracle that I became an actress. I survived because of hard work and perseverance.