Frances Tiafoe Quotes

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

Success is ever so dangerous. Once you rise to success, it's so easy to stop doing the things that made you successful.

I lose now and then. I get lazy. And sometimes I work just hard enough to win.

When a successful man goes to pieces, his frustration engulfs the entire surroundings.

Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

I say, 'You can never use excuses because they always run out.'

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.

I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.

I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.