Seneca the Younger Quotes

Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few marks are made in the world's history by eight-hour-day men.... Sir Joshua Reynolds had but one maxim for success: Work, work, work. Is not rigid and continuous training necessary for the making of strong athletes? Hard work is not fatal to real success. Vouloir c'est pouvoir.

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.

Work hard at everything you do. Never give up. Never quit. Many people have talents but without the hard work you won't get anywhere.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened.

For the last three years that I have tried, people are laughing at me and saying that I was trying too hard. And my answer is yeah, I really am trying hard.

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.

Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.

Hell itself must yield to industry.

To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.

I worked as hard as I could. I was always the first one on the ice, and the last one off.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Full effort is full victory.

Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay.

You always have to strive

I believe that constant effort, tireless effort, pursuing clear goals with sincere effort is the only way

If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!

Hustling is putting every minute and all your effort into achieving the goal at hand.

Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.

No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.