Pia Wurtzbach Quotes

It was tough to fail year after year. I never even got to the final stage until I got my card on the Web.com Tour. But I always believed that I could be something special. I just had to prove it to myself.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

I keep my feet on the ground, keep dedicated, keep focused, underestimate nobody and obviously you need the ability, talent and everything else that goes with it.

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.

It takes a lot of hard work to achieve your dreams, but nothing in life is easy. If it's something you really want, go after it!

The only time we fail is when we stop trying.

Full effort is full victory.

Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay.

You always have to strive

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

Work hard at everything you do. Never give up. Never quit. Many people have talents but without the hard work you won't get anywhere.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.

Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few marks are made in the world's history by eight-hour-day men.... Sir Joshua Reynolds had but one maxim for success: Work, work, work. Is not rigid and continuous training necessary for the making of strong athletes? Hard work is not fatal to real success. Vouloir c'est pouvoir.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.

Just believe in what you're doing, and keep doing it.

I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.

At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You've got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen.

Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened.