Petrarch Quotes

Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn't give you the right to be any better than anybody else.

Being Prince's sister might get me in the door, but it is my own talent that keeps me on the stage.

I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!

The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it's not something I've ever used and I don't think I ever will.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had.

I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect.

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

My name does help me get in the door, but it doesn't do the work for me.

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

People that I know, the vast majority, who are successful work really, really hard. Sure, there's some people that either get lucky or inherited it or don't have to work hard for some reason, but the vast majority who are successful work really, really hard.

Everyone has opportunities and different doors that are opened to them in different ways. In the end, if you're talented you'll get work, if you're not, you won't, so it doesn't really matter who you know.

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

There is no distinction of persons among them, and deference is shown to merit rather than to noble blood.

Only in recent history has “working hard” signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura.

Nothing creates a winner quite like earning it, not just inheriting it.

There are superstars that deserve to be at the top and do give everything.

No magic wands have been waved in my direction; I didn't win some kind of lottery to land a spot at one of the biggest clubs in the world.

People shouldn't think that something is their birthright. They need to prove themselves.

The last thing I wanted in life was to be measured by what I had inherited, as opposed to what I had done.

I have never lived off my family name.

Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it.