H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quotes

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

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.

Effort is grossly underrated.

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

When you’re out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning. Just remember that.

Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.

The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.

Set your goals high and go far. Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today.

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.

Success at anything will always come down to this: focus & effort. And we control both.

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

It was incredible being on tour with Taylor Swift: she was the epitome of a professional, and she works so hard. For someone as successful as her to work that hard every night - truly inspirational.

Just work hard, and things come to life. I am a living truth of it.

I never underestimate luck and working hard.

You have to work hard and your chances will come.

I don't think that people don't succeed; I think that it takes time! Everyone will have their time to shine!

I believe you can do a lot even if you have a 15-minute part in a project.

Not a lot of people see that when you're growing up. You don't get to see that people really have to work hard to become as good as they are.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.