Toks Olagundoye Quotes

There's really no substitute for working hard. I think that's my biggest talent. There are always people who are funnier and more talented than I am, but I don't take anything for granted and I commit myself 100% to each of my roles.

You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

Natural ability is important, but you can go far without it if you have the focus, drive, desire and positive attitude.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

Anything I learned was just work hard, just keep working and don't worry about the outside stuff. Whatever happens will happen.

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

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

I've always been very driven and knew that to get where I wanted to go, I could never give up.

I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to - work harder than anybody else.

You may have seen me in movies like 'Fast & Furious' and 'Avatar.' But I wouldn't have been able to do any of that without hard work and determination. You can accomplish anything if you just stay out of trouble and do the right things.

I've been on television since I was about 17. I had opportunities - one major opportunity I blew in my 20s. Once I started down this pathway, it was a case of not letting anyone stop me. Not my wife, not my family. It was getting too late to give it a small percentage. I had to give it one hundred percent.

You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.

My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

There are lots of people way more talented than me - but I work more, and I wanted it more. I never waited on anyone else.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.

In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.

Let us suppose you become a craneman. Suppose you become a clerk in a lawyer's office. Give the best that is in you. Let nothing stand in the way of your going on.

I just keep doing what I'm doing and don't ever give up.

I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade. But then in higher secondary, there were only three people who got first division in arts, and I was one of them. So this tells you, where you put your mind and heart into, that's where you go.

I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too.

If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.