Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn't give you the right to be any better than anybody else.

No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

Work alone is noble.

Only in recent history has “working hard” signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura.

I've worked hard for my life. No one gave me anything.

I don't believe in handouts, I believe in working hard for what you want.

Nobody works harder than me.

Your success can't be determined by your surname but only by your work.

It's very nice to meet people who just get on, work hard, and don't have things handed to them.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I'm worth it, then everything should be fine.

Only your work is your hands, and I focus on that.

I never met a man who worked harder than me.

I am happy with the way things are turning out for me because it is only my hard work and no one else's push.

I knew I was as good as anybody. That's not really bragging; it's just that I'd put the time in.

The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but not in the world of affairs and of service unless they rip off their coats and get to work early and stay late. To be born with a golden spoon in the mouth is more of a handicap than a help in attaining worthwhile success in this age.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.

I've been the type of person [and] the type of athlete, I don't like to be given anything. I like to earn.

There is no happiness that isn't earned

I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.

I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.

If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.