Brandon Ingram Quotes

I am also a hard worker and people are sometimes surprised to see that as well.

Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they're over-the-hill at age 50, I don't understand it.

I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

I think you have to teach kids to work, and you can only teach them to work if you work... I can't delegate jobs if I'm not doing it.

My grandmother told me a long time ago, 'I don't care if you're sweeping a porch for a living.' She said, 'You need to do your best.' So I've lived by that every single day.

I can only control what I can control, which is taking care of my business here and working hard every single day, and eventually that time will come.

I'm not super outgoing, but I think the biggest thing I can do is lead by example.

I think naturally I've been kind of a lead-by-doing guy. Just showing up to work every day. You never ask teammates something you wouldn't do yourself.

I never told my kids, 'You've got to work hard.' I just worked hard, and they followed my example.

I was always a hard worker, but when I was younger I didn't have to put the extra work in like some of the other guys.

Nobody said, 'You have to step up and be a leader for the family.' I took it upon myself. I wanted to set the bar high for my brothers.

Talk is cheap, but when you go out there and prove it - you're the first one to show up for practice, and you're the last to leave - that's how you lead by example.

My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, 'Happiness is your own responsibility.' That's probably what I quote from her and live by the most.

You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be reinforced through our neighborhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply yourself, you have to motivate your self. You have to do for self by yourself, and then you can do things for other people. That's what I had to do, I had to do for self.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

I'm just living my life. I'm incredibly disciplined and I work incredibly hard. I show up for things on time, I do my homework, and I work my ass off. I've had a lot of luck, but I work really, really hard.

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."

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

I have always been a firm believer in working hard for what is right and for making your own breaks if you want things to change.

There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.

No one has earned the right to do less than their best.

Hard work and diligence are essential to success, but they require an internal motivation. That internal motivation is Vision