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If at first you don't succeed try try try again.

I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months but you don't earn the fourth without it.

Plodding wins the race.

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.

Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world but I succeeded because I keep going and going and going.

If at first you don't succeed you're running about average.

The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.

There's such a thin line between winning and losing.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

They who are the most persistent and work in the true spirit will invariably be the most successful.

Business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit.

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.