Clara Hughes Quotes

Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration!

If you are willing to dream and then work hard and execute well, you can achieve more than you ever imagined.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It's the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.

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

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.

The more you dream the more you achieve.

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

It has been a long journey, but if you dream and have the ambition and want to work hard, then you can achieve.

2017 was crazy when I made the 'Freshman' cover 'cause I looked up to it, and I really wanted to be in it. It was motivation for me after that: I kept on going, and I grinded.

One of the greatest things about our band is that we bring the American dream to the world. Here's a bunch of kids that were living in nowhere New Jersey, and we made it through a lot of practice and a lot of work and a lot of luck. It shows the world, 'If we did it, you can do it.'

If I can win the Tour de France, there is hope for everybody.

The message that I tell everybody, the one that I sign on all of my autographs, the one that resonates with me is, 'Never give up. Never, ever give up,' There are so many things that I've learned in my life. Anything is possible. There are no limits to what you can accomplish.

The titles that I have won at a young age are a further inspiration to work hard to continue to be successful.

Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.

I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.

I've always been stimulated by the sense of challenge.

It's easy to dream about it ... Much harder to execute it ....Work!

No matter where you want to go, as long as you follow your path with faith, dedication and hard work, you are going to get there.

Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. Discipline comes to those with the awareness that for a kite to fly it must rise against the wind; that all good things are achieved by those who are willing to swim upstream; that drifting aimlessly through life only leads to bitterness and disappointment." And then he added: "Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

Hang onto that goal and you do what you have to do to make it happen.