Sydney J. Harris Quotes

Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things

You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.

Many successful people are no more talented than unsuccessful people. The difference between them lies in the old axiom that successful people do those things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

Determination and hard work are as important as talent.

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

Whatever success people have in a field, it's a result of hard work. If you ultimately succeed in one place, you must have worked hard there or somewhere else.

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.

I learned that hard work and self-discipline can overcome many obstacles.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

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

Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study.

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

Hard work is the only way to success. You have to be tough, stay tough.

Talent alone is never enough.

Hard work beats talent, and I live by that.

I think most of my success is my dedication, not my talent.

I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.