Sonny Bono Quotes

Hopefully, I've got rid of the question marks over whether I can play at the top level.

I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I knew I had to show everybody that I could excel at something. But I didn't know what.

You can have all the money in the world, but if you're not a good candidate, it doesn't matter.

If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not sure I have the capacity for.

If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark; And what if I don't, and what if I do?

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"

It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.

When do any of us ever do enough?

Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?

...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.

Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.

I have no known marketable skills.

Even trying it as an actor, I never thought I'd actually make it.

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

I'm terrible. I'm the wrong person to talk to, I really don't know a thing.

I like to think I'm pretty good at what I do.

I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a psychiatrist's office, or renting surfboards...I guess I saw their lives as failed somehow, absent of the Big Win...What is fate was an inherited trait? What if luck came through the genetic line, and the ability to "succeed" at your chosen "direction" was handed down, just like the family china? Maybe I was destined to be a weed too.

Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on you. You don't want to offend opportunity. So the only thing you present to opportunity is ability, performance and skill. Don't present need to opportunity.

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?