Bertolt Brecht Quotes

It's hard and continuous dedication that brings lasting results.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

I haven't met anybody who hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.

Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess, but if you stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.

It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.

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

Know that even when you want to give up or throw in the towel, in the end it will all be worth the hard work.

You don't always get what you want, but you work at it.

Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.

It's amazing how far you will get by just staying with something long enough. Most people give up too early.

Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.

And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

I think the older I've gotten the more, like most people, my appreciation shifts towards things that are very difficult, where you see people who have put in tremendous hours and hours of commitment.

Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.

Nothing meaningful or lasting comes without working hard at it.

I've learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like doing today, but for a payoff we'll love tomorrow. Earn it. Enjoy it.

Talent is long patience.

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

Sticking to it is the genius.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

When you get hard work you get success, and we put a lot of years into it.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''