Nadia Boulanger Quotes

Hell itself must yield to industry.

Whatever success people have in a field, it's a result of hard work. If you ultimately succeed in one place, you must have worked hard there or somewhere else.

Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

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

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

When I was young, I would try to give the right answers. 'I'm going to try to slide.' But at the end of the day, I finally realized that I am going to do whatever it takes. I'm going to leave everything out there.

I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

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

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.

I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.

It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.

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.

Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.

Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

You may not do well, necessarily, up front, and in order to be the best, you've got to work hard.

You have to try, you have to try everything you can.

Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

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

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.