‘If you can’t beat them – Join them!’
Quotes are everywhere! Stumbling on a perfect quote can make a big difference – it can motivate you to carry-on and it can calm your nerves for a big day. So, in the essence of: ‘If you can’t beat them – join them!’ We’ve compiled some quotes specifically for us compers. There are some great sources of wisdom here – we have separated them into sections to make it a quick source of reference. We hope you enjoy them – and especially, we hope that they lead you into comping greatness!
PERSISTENCE – a great theme for compers when the going gets tough! It’s so easy to think about giving up in the face of a dry-spell. Don’t delete that massive inbox- unread e-mails from promoters could contain the one competition that propels you into a run of luck – so persistence is the key!
“Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you are inspired or not…habit is persistence in practice” – Octavia E Butler.
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success” – Napoleon Hill
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm” – Winston Churchill
“Get going. Move forward. Aim high. Plan a take-off. Don’t just sit in the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here.” – Donald Trump
WINNING & LOSING – Sometimes it’s easy to concentrate on losing over the winning. Prize draws carry so many losses and we simply have to focus on our wins and never give up!
“Without ambition one starts nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.” -Napoleon Hill
“If you quit once it becomes a habit. Never quit” – Michael Jordan
“It’s always too soon to quit” – Norman Vincent Peale
LUCK – Where would we be without good old lady luck? Believing that we are lucky can reap great rewards. The more we believe we are lucky, the more we seem to be lucky. If it ever wavers, have a read of these:
“I’m a great believer in luck, I find the harder I work, the more I have of it” Thomas Jefferson
“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.” Terry Pratchett
“Good luck needs no explanation.” Shirley Temple
We hope you have enjoyed our little round up! Do you have any quotes that spur you on? Which ones did you like in particular? Let us know in the comments.