Mara Brock Akil Quotes

Hope for the best and work for it.

Dream big work hard.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I just believe that if I work hard and do well, who knows what the future holds?

If you want something bad enough and you work hard enough, anything's possible.

I just have to keep working hard and keep pushing for my chance.

I'm going to go out there and do what I do and play football, and everything will work out.

A lot of things are going to happen that you can't necessarily control all the time, but you can control what you do after it happens. So that's what I try to do, keep my head up, keep moving forward, stay positive and just work hard.

No matter what comes, I will always work hard and do my best.

Even though sometimes you don't get the minutes you want to, you've just got to continue to work hard and know that if you keep playing hard and doing the right things, then eventually things will turn your way.

The main quality I have is my mentality because I never gave up - I never, ever give up. I have been like that since I was young. I knew I had to take my chance when it came. Nobody gives you anything. You have to go and take it and this was the way I think.

I always believed in my ability. I just had to work hard and be patient and, yeah, at times it didn't look likely. You need a wee stroke of luck but every chance I've been given, I've taken.

No one is mocked with the yearning for that which he has no ability to attain. If he holds the right mental attitude and struggles earnestly, honestly toward his goal, he will reach it, or at least approximate to it.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

I always knew I had to work hard.

Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

I feel like a tiger right now. There's nothing impossible if you get up and work for it.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.