Robert Capa Quotes

You don't win without talent, but your talent has to have purpose.

If you work hard and you're somewhat talented, you'll be successful in this league.

I'm talented, but my work ethic has pushed me over the top.

Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.

I want to be in the big show, and to be in the big show, you have to practice. I have this attitude now that I'm going to take all the greatness I can. Nothing's going to stop me.

If you really want something bad enough, if you're really interested in something enough, you know, you just keep working on it.

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.

If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.

I've always surrounded myself with people who are driven. You can be gorgeous, but if you don't want to work for it, nothing is not going to happen.

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

When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it.

You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

I enjoy people who have passion, whether it is as a musician or whatever they do. All people who have success keep it very basic. Try your best. But without passion, you will not have success.

I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.

You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

I almost always have a strong passion about the things I do. I wouldn't say aggressive, but I am always trying very hard to make sure that things will succeed.

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.