"Fail, it's not in my dictionary. I've got……" — Percy Cerutty
"Fail, it's not in my dictionary. I've got a good dictionary up there and the words 'fail' and 'failure' have been ruled out for years. I don't know what people are talking about who use that word. All I do know is temporary non-success, even if I've got to wait another 20 years for what I'm after, and I try to put that into people, no matter what their object in life."
—
Percy Cerutty
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
20 Quotes by Percy Cerutty
Percy Cerutty has 20 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps.
-
Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: man was meant to run.
-
Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer.
-
The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living…
-
Thus I urge you to go onto your greatness if you believe it is in you. Think deeply and separate…
-
I have found life highly competitive. I accept it. It is useless, merely a hypocritical humbug, to sincerely wish your…
-
Let the smokers and the gluttons die... and leave the living to us who know how to use it.
-
Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures.
-
While a man is racing he must hate himself and his competitors.
-
If it hurts, make it hurt more.
-
Ignore, then, whether you are tall and thin or short and stocky- whether they laughed at you at home (where…
-
If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it-only talk about it.
See all 20 quotes by Percy Cerutty »
More All Quotes
This quote is filed under All Quotes,
one of 128,558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
-
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
-
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
-
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
-
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
See all 128,558 All Quotes »