Steve Winwood Quotes

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

You've got to work hard and have luck. Luck only enters in if you do work hard.

Humans recognize effort, and that's what I do. I give max effort.

Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Everything yields to diligence.

You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.