Kevin Kline Quotes

Without the work, the magic won’t come.

I think one of my biggest lessons so far in life is that hard work really does pay off. It may not culminate in the way you expected it to, but I have found that when I really put my head down and apply myself, I often get a good result.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

The common denominator for success is work.

Effort is grossly underrated.

Talent without work is useless, thank God

The true success is to labour.

Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.

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

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

I take pride knowing that I hustle, day in and day out.

Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.

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.

There is no substitute for hard work. If you're looking for the easy way, if you're looking for the trick, you might get by for a while, but you will not be developing the talents that lie within you. There is simply no substitute for work.

You've got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.

I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work.

It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work.

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

Working hard is not always fun - that's why it is called work.

Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.