Jim Jefferies Quotes

I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.

There was a time in my life when opportunities were so few and far between they were like little cracks in the wall, and if one opportunity came my way, I would scratch and claw and bite and I would do anything I could to make sure that I grabbed that opportunity by the throat and I did not let it go.

There were a number of definitions of courage, but now I was seeing it in its simplest form: you do what has to be done day after day, and you never quit.

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.

He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

You have to work hard, in order to get anything done.

If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings.

Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.

Most people will not do the hard work it takes to make success easy. Don't be like most people.

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

Don't doubt, don't stop... The only 2 things that can stop you is to stop working and start doubting.

It's not going to be easy, it's going to be worth it.

We must know the difference between sweat and tears. Sweat is wet. Tears are wet. Sweat is salty. Tears are salty. But progress comes through sweat. Progress never came through tears.

And I thought well, if Tina Turner can go up there and she can give everything for 500 people, no matter how sick I am, I can make it happen too.

From my experience of having served for 3000 days, I can say that anything can be achieved.

Freedom is not free, and we all have a lot of work ahead of us. And I perform the ultimate soundtrack to get the job done every day. We're not having any fun at all.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

When you lose, you get up, you make it better, you TRY AGAIN.

What we most value, we shall think no pains too great to gain.

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.