Paulo Coelho Quotes

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

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Diligence is not easy, but we can't reach our goals without it.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

Brilliant results don't just show up by chance. The finest things in life take patience, focus and sacrifice.

When I learn martial arts, my master will have me try a punch for a week and he will keep saying, 'No, you don't have it. No, that's not right.' When he finally says, 'Yes, you did it,' it's a wonderful moment. You worked on it. You got it.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

There's no secrets or magic tricks to being successful in life. It's plain and simple. Work harder than everyone else and the only way to do that is to do it. It may sound silly but it's the truth and there aint nothing to it but to do it!

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.

Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort.

Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.

Success is less about luck, and more about practice.

Many successful people are no more talented than unsuccessful people. The difference between them lies in the old axiom that successful people do those things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

Without the work, the magic won’t come.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

If you work hard and be persistent, you will achieve whatever you want to do.

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

People who accomplish big things did small things well.

My parents taught me as a kid: do your work. Do it well. Try as hard as you can, whatever it is. It will one day, for the long run, it will make some sort of change somewhere.

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

It's important to work hard - there's no short cut around that.

Every day is a work day, and I have to work my ass off just as much as any other guy, doing whatever job they're doing. I believe in commitment and hard work, and hopefully, after that, success comes.