A Quote by Evan Esar

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

Evan Esar

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Aspiration Desperation Fortune Good Good Fortune Inspiration Perspiration Success Success Is

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Evan Esar
American - Writer
1899 - 1995

Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration!

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Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

Stephen Leacock

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

Harlan Coben

Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

Vladislav Rastorotsky

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Nostradamus

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

Thomas A. Edison

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Thomas A. Edison

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Juan Roman Riquelme

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

Roald Dahl

Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But alas! each relaxing and desperation is an instinct too. To be active, well, happy, implies courage. To be ready to fight in a duel or a battle implies desperation, or that you hold your life cheap.

Henry David Thoreau

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.