Millicent Fenwick Quotes

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

You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

There's no point starting something you don't intend to finish.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.

The world belongs to those who show up.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Finishing what you started is important.

There's hard work to be done, which I'll do. I'll continue to do it.

The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.

I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard.

If it ought to be done, then apply yourself to it strenuously

I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last.

It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.

I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.

What did you try hard at today?

You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.

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

Everything yields to diligence.