Venus Williams Quotes

I've worked hard my whole life, since I was a little kid. But now it's a point in my life now where I can just enjoy it, but at the same time I still need to work.

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.

If I cannot attend to my duties, I am simply going to give up this job.

I spent my whole life working hard.

That's the easiest thing to do, is quit and give up when things are hard. You really see what you're made of when those things are not going the way you want them to go.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa's time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep-they called it work.

Sorry, but retirement offends me. You don’t just stop fighting in the middle of a war because your legs hurt. So why do you get to stop working in the middle of your life just because your prostate hurts? That’s desertion.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

We live in a time when people give up too easy.

Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

I always remind my kids that hard work pays off. They see that I take nothing for granted in life. It helps them stay grounded.

One of the greatest provisions for people like me, to be honest with you - I give up a lot when I run.

Hard work is for people short on talent.

I haven't stopped working since I was 10.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.

Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

When you're doing late night you're on the grind every night; you send someone to check on your mom.

For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.

There's good and bad in every arena. It's funny, some people, the reason they're in the underground is because they're lazy and don't make things happen for themselves.

In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.