Nora Roberts Quotes

I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

If you want to make something of yourself, you have to just do it relentlessly.

I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.

But if that's what you want to be, that's what you will be - as long as you study.

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

Hard work is the main thing-hard work and dedication. And I think a great part of it is goal setting. You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them. Every goal that I've set, I've been able to achieve. That's been very fulfilling.

For me, it is important to do well in what I'm doing, to achieve the goals I have for myself.

I was a sheet metal worker, then a metal engineer, then a Pontin's bluecoat, then a comedian. You can achieve anything you want if you put your mind to it.

Work hard for what you want in life.

The sky is the limit when you work hard.

The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.

I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.

Do not expect anything; there is more to be gained by earning it.

Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.

To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

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.

If you want to achieve what you dream of achieving, whatever it may be, you're going to have to earn it.

One of the things Mother said to me, 'You want this, you're going to practice.' And I know how to practice.

If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next guy, have a goal and achieve it.