Antonio Villaraigosa Quotes

If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.

Preparation meets opportunity, and that causes success if you're prepared to do your job and you practice a lot, more times than not you're going to be successful.

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

I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.

I've been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.

Success is not an accident. When you put yourself in the right place at the right time, then you're likely to be more successful because of how you prepare yourself on a daily basis.

I know what it takes to get to the top.

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

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.

When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.

You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

You make your own luck by working hard, you know?

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Success is entirely accessible, even if you happen to be a huge screw-up 95 percent of the time.

You don't get to where you are by just sitting on your butt and expecting it to come.

Anything is possible for anybody if they work hard enough.

It takes a lot of hard work to stay committed and focus on what I wanted to achieve.

The secret behind success isn't as much of a secret as people think. It's pretty simple. It's working as hard as you can to accomplish what you want.

People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.

I can't tell you how many times I had opportunities to do other things and went and golfed because I wanted to be the best.

My philosophy is, if you work as hard as you can, you give yourself as many opportunities as you can to be successful and lucky.

You don't just become a success overnight.

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

The road to success is through commitment.