Larry Elder Quotes

I grew up very disciplined and doing what I had to do.

If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got to have that kind of structure in your life. It kind of helped me be that disciplined person that I am, whether it's with workouts, film or just the game of football.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

I have a track record of accepting my party's decisions. I do whatever work is given to me with determination. That's all.

There's a lot that's out of your control. But the one thing that you can control is your work ethic.

My childhood was all about discipline, hard work and training.

There's no excuse for losing for me.

The disciplined are free.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

When I was about 12 years old, I knew I had to take the game more seriously if I wanted to be able to provide for my family.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

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.

I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

For the progress of the nation, what is needed is discipline.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

I was blessed by my parents and my antecedents by a very strong work ethic. I mean, being a Member of Parliament is 24/7, just as much as when you're actually doing a play. It's not quite 24/7, but it's the work that counts.

There's certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through. I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don't think I'd have a place to stay.

Work is hard, and jobs can be dull. But you can't just take a holiday when you feel like it. You turn up because it is the right thing to do.