Charles Bukowski Quotes

I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard.

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.

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

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

I've decided that whether I succeed or fail, I have to give it 100 per cent. That way, at least I know I tried.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

Hustle is waking up the day before you die and realising you gave it your all.

And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.

One difference between those who make it and those who don't--regardless of their field of endeavor--is not the "talent" difference. Those who go over the top have a dream and the dream has them. They make the commitment and pursue that dream with dogged patience and persistence. Commitment produces consistent, enthusiastic effort that inevitably produces greater and greater rewards.

It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.

Working inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you are interested, keep working. If you are bored, keep working.

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.

The most important thing is to keep trying...

If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

If you work hard and be persistent, you will achieve whatever you want to do.

Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.

How long should you try? Until.

I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.

Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.