Ricky Gervais Quotes

I feel really humbled and really grateful to have the opportunities that I've had over the past couple of years to work with some amazing people. I think, at this point, I just want to put my head down and grind and do honest work.

I won an award when I was 15 and my mum and dad were very proud and so was I but for me, individual things like that aren't as significant as I have been part of so much and there were weeks and months of hard work building up to those pinnacle moments and they can be full of moments of pride.

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.

My road to success was a long road to success was a long road. You get out of something what you put into it. I put blood, sweat and tears into stand-up comedy and the entertainment realm in general. For me to just know be coming around is a blessing. It's a blessing and it's an honor. It makes me say I can get more and I can do more.

A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars.

I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.

If you want the best things in life you have to earn them for yourself.

Hard work is the main thing-hard work and dedication. And I think a great part of it is goal setting. You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them. Every goal that I've set, I've been able to achieve. That's been very fulfilling.

In the end, the greatest victory we can know is the result of all of our hard work, discipline, and dedication: the realization of our dreams.

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

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

You just go out and compete and try to earn whatever you can. I'm looking to get better every single day I set foot on this field.

Just thinking of all the things I'd done getting there and everything I've sacrificed to do so. But what's happening now makes it worth it.

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

I've been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.

I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment.

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.

I'm happy for the success that I've had, but I've worked so hard at it.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

If I can inspire people by showing that following a dream by working hard and being determined is possible, it's amazing.