Madeleine Albright Quotes

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

I think swagger's a confidence. It's a confidence of you knowing that you work hard for your success. A lot of times, you can't develop swagger if you haven't worked hard to succeed.

I may not be smarter, I may not be as well-known, but I know I can outwork any of them.

Stay humble, stay grounded, remember what got you to that level-and that’s hard work.

I'm not a genius; I'm a worker.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.

I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.

Work hard, no matter how much recognition you get.

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work.

I always knew that, even if I was not the most beautiful girl, I'd be the most energetic and hard-working. If you want to know the truth, that's the reason for my success.

There is nothing more important than hard work.

I know only one way: work hard.

I'm a very humble young man. I've always had to work for everything that I had.

I had great grades. Why? Because I studied twice as long and twice as hard as everybody else.

You don't get anywhere without hard work. The earlier you understand that, the better.

I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."

Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

One thing I've been taught from young is that you have to work hard, turn up to extra training sessions, etc.

I'm from the old school; hard work pays off.

I studied really, really hard, rather boringly.

I will continue to work hard until I get to where I want to be.