Queen Latifah Quotes

Just think of the work you've set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.

There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel.

I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

I just take on what I can commit to completely at that point in time, and that way you'll be able to give your best.

I always got my work done before playing.

He who commences many things finishes but few.

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.

I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish.

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

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

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.

I think one of the greatest skills a person can have is to complete a task they start. To take something from beginning, to middle, to end. In life, if you have that skill, I think you can go very far.

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

I know what it takes to get to the top.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that.

Set out with some definite purpose in life and accomplish that purpose. There is little that the human mind can conceive that is not possible of accomplishment. The thing to do is to make up your mind what you are going to drive for, and let nothing stand in the way of its ultimate accomplishment.

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.