Elle King Quotes

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

Even after I got some recognition and success, I still had to work hard and prove myself.

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

Stay humble, be fearless, and work, work, work, work, work, work.

There are some key words that I have learned: the first ones are humility and determination; they are fundamental to reach certain levels. I want to continue like this, working hard without ever feeling satisfied.

Nothing makes you try harder than to be told that you are not good enough or that you simply do not have the skills.

I'm always pushing myself.

I come from zero and I've had to push myself up to where I am today. I'm not going to give up and I'm going to keep pushing.

I think being in the public eye has made me more determined than other people to show that I do belong at the top, and I believe I am one of the hardest-working people at the rink. I feel like I have always been that way, but sometimes I just get in my own way.

I'm just grateful that I didn't give up on myself and I just kept plugging at it.

I'm about working, getting better, and proving people wrong.

Every time my capability as an actor would be questioned, I would put in double the effort.

I just want to keep working hard. I just want to keep improving myself. And I just want to prove people that I can play in the real game.

I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I've learned that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success. It's like being animated by the love of a woman - the need to be worthy of her.

You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way.

I knew I was not a failure in any way, and so did those close to me. It doesn't matter if you fall short; it is never a failure to go after your goals with everything you've got.

It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.

I don't know if I'm the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn't be.