Jane Fonda Quotes

After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the way back to high school. It was a year-round process of constantly having to work and be disciplined, and I was able to understand and connect the dots between all those characteristics - especially hard work and success.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn't give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn't surround myself with people who are lazy.

It's actually true that I keep myself going by constantly promising myself that in response for the hard work I will be allowed to do some more hard work later on.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

She [Mandy Ingber] brought yoga into my life. It completely changed my life . . . It's one of the most fun workouts I've ever had . . . So have fun and work hard because it will totally pay off.

The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

I just have to keep working hard.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.

Since I was very young I have always worked hard at whatever I have had to do.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.

Work hard, no matter how much recognition you get.

I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

You have to work hard at things.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

Work harder than anybody you've ever seen. That's what I believe.

I believe in hard work. I think that everything flows out of that.

I work 15 hours a day and still go to the gym. Most people work eight hours a day and say, 'I haven't got time to work out.'

I'm an early riser. I work out really hard. I push myself; I get my job done, and at the end of the day, there's a Guinness waiting for me.