Martha Wainwright Quotes

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.

The first hundred years are the hardest.

I'm a big believer in having to go through hard times to get to where you want to be. Nothing comes easy. You have to work.

A lot of people may know me for my music now. It took me almost 14 years to get where I am, and it was really hard.

Everyone has different paths. I've been lucky to have a good support system - my family, friends and colleagues to keep me grounded and humble and to keep working hard. I never give up.

Being in bands and plugging away with not many opportunities and no money for many years really shaped me and taught me about work ethic.

When you get hard work you get success, and we put a lot of years into it.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.

We thought the hardest thing in the world was to get a record deal, then the hardest was to get a No. 1 record, and then the hardest thing is to stay at the top. It's a lot of work.

Although, at times, soccer is a challenge to mind, body, and spirit, fundamentally, the progression of the U.S. women's game and those who play it reflects a distinctively American culture, rooted in our struggle, shared aspiration, hard work and self-determination.

Success always demands a greater effort.

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

Work hard for what you want in life.

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.

There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.

Nothing any good isn't hard.

Hard work is the price we must pay for success

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

Anything worth having has its price.

Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.

I wouldn't say it came easy, but I understood how to win and I determined how I could do it.

It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'.

My parents got divorced when I was about ten years old, but I saw my mom go work two and three jobs to make sure we didn't miss a beat.