Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

I've learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work.

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

I've been out with lots of other artists opening for them on tour, and you just learn that none of their success came easy - it was all hard work for them, and you have to buckle down and get ready for the hard work yourself, too.

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.

So I say keep yelling and hustling every minute you're in uniform.

I like to do things that you need to chip away at.

I will keep working hard!

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

The longest journeys start with the smallest steps.

Practice, work hard, and give it everything you have.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.