Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. The desire and ability to press on has and a...
JEFFREY FRY Many people see themselves as a rose, when all they are is just a prick.
JEFFREY FRY Wisdom comes when you realize the pain, people, or problems life used to produce you now push you.
JEFFREY FRY Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to ...
JEFFREY FRY One thing I can give and still keep is my word.
JEFFREY FRY Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Tr...
JEFFREY FRY Entrepreneurship does not build character; it reveals character.
JEFFREY FRY Shine brightly, so you can help those who have not found their path a way through the darkness.
JEFFREY FRY The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.
JEFFREY FRY Trust is tough since it involves that quixotic mix of integrity, vulnerability, and intimacy. But tr...
JEFFREY FRY When your back is against the wall, you will find it is a good place to push off.
JEFFREY FRY Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck at it no matter how much heat or pressure they faced.
JEFFREY FRY No matter how much we think about something, in the end, the decision is made on how we feel.
JEFFREY FRY It is amazing how much wisdom has been handed down through the ages, yet we still make the same mist...
JEFFREY FRY Deep breaths are very useful with shallow people.
JEFFREY FRY True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.
JEFFREY FRY Just because our brains are limited in size, does not mean our minds need be.
JEFFREY FRY Hell is not a place you go for your sins. It is where you are when you are not sharing the gifts you...
JEFFREY FRY Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
JEFFREY FRY I will never be normal. Normal is just another word for average.
JEFFREY FRY Often doors of opportunity are opened, but few opt to walk through them.
JEFFREY FRY What a poor life I have had if I am only remembered for the amount of money I made.
JEFFREY FRY Others may predict my future but only I can determine my destiny.
JEFFREY FRY You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.
JEFFREY FRY Everything put together is made to fall apart.
JEFFREY FRY Never has an angry word spoken ever made this world better.
JEFFREY FRY Learn the difference between good and great and then chose greatness.
JEFFREY FRY As a blacksmith uses heat to temper steel, so should a trial by fire strengthen one’s mettle.
JEFFREY FRY Being good is making it look easy, but getting good is never easy.
JEFFREY FRY The forces of freedom and choice will always triumph against the forces of conformity and control.
JEFFREY FRY A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the ...
JEFFREY FRY The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and t...
JEFFREY FRY The sun loves the moon so much that he dies every night to let her breathe, and in return, she refle...
JEFFREY FRY Every expert began as an amateur.
JEFFREY FRY Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness.
JEFFREY FRY Excellence does not come from believing in excellence, but from constant change, challenge, and impr...
JEFFREY FRY Great relationships do not depend on who you find, they depend on who you are.
JEFFREY FRY There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.
JEFFREY FRY Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid.
JEFFREY FRY Having more data does not always give you the power to make better decisions.
JEFFREY FRY An open mind and heart usually lead you to those who have the same.
JEFFREY FRY When you are not sure what to do, take action. You will quickly find out.
JEFFREY FRY You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY When you truly love, you can never really get hurt.
JEFFREY FRY From victory we learn little, from defeat - everything.
JEFFREY FRY Greatness comes not in possessing security, but in withstanding insecurity.
JEFFREY FRY Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Everyone in your life gives you something. The bad ones give you experience, the worst ones a lesson...
JEFFREY FRY To improve oneself you must be as persistent as the drip, drip, drip of water filling a bucket. Do a...
JEFFREY FRY Opportunity may come to the patient, but always comes to the persistent.
JEFFREY FRY A person with no enemies is a person with no personality.
JEFFREY FRY Be bold in life. Seize the moment. There is no surrender, no retreat. There is only conquer or be co...
JEFFREY FRY Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship.
JEFFREY FRY Whoever angers you, masters you.
JEFFREY FRY To realize that everything in the universe is connected is to both accept our insignificance and und...
JEFFREY FRY To be taken seriously, try being educated instead of opinionated.
JEFFREY FRY Sometimes life seems a dark tunnel with no light at the end, but if you just keep moving forward, yo...
JEFFREY FRY Sometimes the best solution is to stop trying to change people.
JEFFREY FRY Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes yo...
JEFFREY FRY If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father.
JEFFREY FRY Unless you can demonstrate your benefits, all you are left to compete with is price.
JEFFREY FRY Love’s value is not dependent on the person receiving it, but on the person giving it.
JEFFREY FRY Do not let your past insecurities ruin your future victories.
JEFFREY FRY Learn to love yourself for you cannot give to others what you do not possess.
JEFFREY FRY I believe the greatest ability to possess is the ability to find, develop, and promote abilities in ...
JEFFREY FRY Once you have gone first class, everything else is coach.
JEFFREY FRY Though the customer is always right, there are some customers you do not want.
JEFFREY FRY I find my chances for success improve when I associate with a few talented people as opposed to a pl...
JEFFREY FRY Love is a coin that cannot be bought or sold but must be given.
JEFFREY FRY A tree that does not blossom, will bear no fruit
JEFFREY FRY To realize that all people are alike and all are different is the beginning of wisdom.
JEFFREY FRY Resentment and bitterness build the cage that only punishes ourselves.
JEFFREY FRY Anything that costs you your integrity is too expensive.
JEFFREY FRY There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY Just because I face a defeat does not mean I am defeated.
JEFFREY FRY Defeat your fears and you can never be defeated.
JEFFREY FRY It is in the doing that makes the being worthwhile.
JEFFREY FRY Lust makes you insane, love gives you sanity.
JEFFREY FRY Opportunity arises when a seemingly impossible task is met with an improbable solution.
JEFFREY FRY I never wake up in the morning and wonder why I am here. I wake up and wonder why I am not making he...
JEFFREY FRY Only those who can see the invisible, can do the impossible.
JEFFREY FRY Fighting external monsters is easy in comparison to how we fight those within us.
JEFFREY FRY A reputation is what you hear when no one is there to speak for it.
JEFFREY FRY Eating humble pie is not very enjoyable, and it is even less so eating it alone.
JEFFREY FRY Bravery is when you walk into a battle you are not sure of winning.
JEFFREY FRY To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY Sometimes you need to lose everything to find what is valuable.
JEFFREY FRY Trust yourself. Make sure your mistakes are your own, not somebody else’s.
JEFFREY FRY A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.
JEFFREY FRY Do only work that matters, and you will end up pleasing those who are important enough to care about...
JEFFREY FRY He is richest who wants least.
JEFFREY FRY Competition reveals the competent.
JEFFREY FRY Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Treasure the people who are willing and able to help you reach your goals.
JEFFREY FRY Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
ELIZABETH FRY Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
CHRISTOPHER FRY I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner...
STEPHEN FRY This is another vicious atrocity with terrorist impact. The device has similarities to the device th...
ALAN FRY This is another vicious atrocity with terrorist impact, ... The device has similarities to the devic...
ALAN FRY This is a completely reckless terrorist attack,
ALAN FRY clearly the sort of weapon we believe was used in this attack is known to be in the hands of certain...
ALAN FRY An examination of the exterior of the building would show some form of small missile hit the buildin...
ALAN FRY The task of police was made much more difficult if not impossible by the failure to give a precise l...
ALAN FRY This was a calculated, evil act by people who were seeking to maim and kill. We are extremely fortun...
ALAN FRY I am afraid there are two dead.
ALAN FRY I am linking the crimes. We are treating this as a racist offense.
ALAN FRY Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
STEPHEN FRY But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one ...
STEPHEN FRY I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRY There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the num...
STEPHEN FRY When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ...
STEPHEN FRY Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
STEPHEN FRY It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame ...
STEPHEN FRY I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the m...
STEPHEN FRY We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I...
STEPHEN FRY I sometimes think
His critical judgement is so exquisite
It leaves us nothing to admire except...
CHRISTOPHER FRY You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the sa...
STEPHEN FRY Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word....
CHRISTOPHER FRY Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty pur...
STEPHEN FRY The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into...
CHRISTOPHER FRY Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
CHRISTOPHER FRY The human heart can go to the lengths of God.
Dark and cold we may be, but this
Is no winter...
CHRISTOPHER FRY Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
CHRISTOPHER FRY The encouragement of industry and frugality among the poor, by visits at their own inhabitations; th...
ELIZABETH FRY There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will l...
STEPHEN FRY I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren'...
STEPHEN FRY I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and ...
STEPHEN FRY The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that ...
STEPHEN FRY I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled tog...
HAYDEN FRY I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and t...
STEPHEN FRY It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certai...
STEPHEN FRY Compromise is a stalling between two fools.
STEPHEN FRY It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
STEPHEN FRY I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting...
STEPHEN FRY You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an e...
STEPHEN FRY Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is s...
STEPHEN FRY Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he cover...
MARTIN FRY It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in com...
STEPHEN FRY I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down ...
STEPHEN FRY Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go ...
STEPHEN FRY Mental health is one of the last great taboos.
STEPHEN FRY No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all ...
STEPHEN FRY Art is significant deformity.
ROGER FRY Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback...
CHRISTOPHER FRY I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.
MARTIN FRY My parents were marvelously educated people.
STEPHEN FRY Between
Our birth and death we may touch understanding
As a moth brushes a window with its win...
CHRISTOPHER FRY You are who you are when nobody's watching.
STEPHEN FRY If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a st...
STEPHEN FRY I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary...
STEPHEN FRY I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it w...
STEPHEN FRY Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
STEPHEN FRY As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound...
STEPHEN FRY They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we...
STEPHEN FRY Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian
ROGER FRY I want to try and wear as many Australian designers as I can because I'd like to support my Aust...
LUCY FRY I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train m...
HAYDEN FRY When it's football season, I'm all football.
HAYDEN FRY It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symp...
STEPHEN FRY I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be o...
STEPHEN FRY If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll ...
STEPHEN FRY I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing r...
STEPHEN FRY It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an emai...
STEPHEN FRY It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue
STEPHEN FRY Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone
ELIZABETH FRY I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been de...
ELIZABETH FRY It's all to make people aware of violence and safety in the evenings, and the different things that ...
ELIZABETH FRY Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jon...
STEPHEN FRY Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
STEPHEN FRY Jo Wood was sound, sound as a bell. Solid, cynical, amused and occasionally amusing, he did not appe...
STEPHEN FRY I shall sustain a massive erection, that’s what, and I shan’t be answerable for the consequences...
STEPHEN FRY Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to expe...
STEPHEN FRY He looked like a midget standing next to it.
KEVIN FRY Eight of the teams believe one interpretation and Ferrari have a slightly different interpretation.
NICK FRY 'Take Back the Night' isn't just about domestic violence, 'Take Back the Night' is also about being ...
ELIZABETH FRY Everyone is invited, it doesn't cost anything, it's free to everyone we're really hoping to have som...
ELIZABETH FRY Does Capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of me...
ELIZABETH FRY I could rent a room, paint it black, bolt on a few chains and call it my punishment room, Then have ...
STEPHEN FRY I was lucky enough to meet him a few times and to work with him once. I felt as if I had been allowe...
STEPHEN FRY I don't think the bitterest enemy of the Perrier Award could deny that it has spotted some real tale...
STEPHEN FRY I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRY Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least doe...
STEPHEN FRY If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so...
STEPHEN FRY I think animal testing is cruel. They get nervous and get all the answers wrong.
STEPHEN FRY Mark has identified that he would like Lee on a permanent basis,
BARRY FRY When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
STEPHEN FRY We're not keen on the idea of freezing the whole engine. It makes it very impractical for all the en...
NICK FRY It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. I...
STEPHEN FRY Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are...
STEPHEN FRY The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
CHRISTOPHER FRY He was so proud to be there doing what he was doing. Not just the war part ... but the Marines and a...
BETH FRY He knew he could never jingle change in his pocket or park his car like a confident adult, he was th...
STEPHEN FRY He was one of a long line of mimsy and embittered middle-class sensitives who disguised their feeble...
STEPHEN FRY He's your enemy, Donald!'
'He most certainly is not,' said Trefusis. 'Not unless I say so. He m...
STEPHEN FRY I've always believed it right for young people to drink. Not to be alcoholic of course, that is a pa...
STEPHEN FRY He knew he could never jingle change in his pocket or park his car like a confident adult, he was th...
STEPHEN FRY The object of love should feel honoured or flattered, responsible in some way. Instead he felt insul...
STEPHEN FRY Other people's tears were more than Adrian could cope with. Did you put an arm round them? Did you p...
STEPHEN FRY The English language is an arsenal of weapons; if you are going to brandish them without checking to...
STEPHEN FRY