Maria Shriver Quotes

I struggled to learn basic skills, get a grip on markets, find my own unique voice, create story lines and come up to speed with the industry. I struggled for ten years before having any success.

You need to push yourself, and in time, everything will come together at the right time.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

It kind of pays off to try your best at every audition; you never know what can happen. You can get a hundred nos, but if you just get one yes, it can change your life.

My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company, my father elevated himself to an NBA player and perennial all-star. So I learned from my parents that it's about hard work, about both of them getting their education, putting people first and leading a life of integrity.

Do I think people who need a good opportunity become harder workers sometimes? Yes.

The hardest thing for me is to be patient and realize that it's not all going to happen right now. I just have to keep digging away, digging away. Just keep working on my game.

I'm gonna have some nights when it's not gonna come. But if you keep playing natural, it's just gonna come. I'm gonna keep getting better, keep getting better, and one day, everything's gonna pay off.

If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.

One bit of advice I can give people is to remember that anything worthwhile takes a long time.

It can be easy to just be a professional half the time, and you may see half the results, but when you're consistent, you can see your full results and you can pan out to be who you want to be year by year.

There's a lot of people on the way up who want to take my place, so it's up to me to continue to improve.

Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.

Endure the journey that you take to reach your top moment. You might not get there right now but when you do, remember what you did to get there.

It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

Success doesn't come instantly. Neither does the ability to lead.

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.

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.