Charles Lamb Quotes

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . .

I love to strive to be good at stuff that's really hard.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Put your head down and work as hard as you can because there is always someone better out there.

I love what I do and I strive to be better; that's what keeps me going. I'm never a slacker, always a striver.

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

You know, I think it's so ironic that we're calling hard work, striving for excellence, don't blame others, you know, don't give up, that we're calling these, quote, 'Chinese values,' 'cause I always thought of them as American values.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

Practice, work hard, and give it everything you have.

Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.

Fame isn't happiness, but success and being respected in your craft is worth fighting for. You've got to work hard to be noticed.

Football is my biggest passion in life, and I've worked really hard to get here. It's so important to me, so I can't sit and watch things not go in the right direction.

Whatever I turn my hand to, I put in the effort to be the best.

I want to be world champion, and that's why I've worked for an entire lifetime to get here.

You need to have dreams, you need to go for it, otherwise why would you be a footballer?

I might win a championship. I might win two or three. I might not. The journey to get there is, for me, the most important.

I'm in the NBA and I won a championship. I had some great things happen, but I'm not satisfied.

The great man is always the man of mighty effort.

The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which is the rejection and the failure and the work and the toil and the sacrifice, is the rest of the iceberg that's below the water.

You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that goal. If you allow yourself to settle for anything less than number one, you are cheating yourself.

Still humping the American Dream

I'm not too in love with the word ambition, but I was driven.