Alek Wek Quotes

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

You have to put in an effort in everything that you do, and you cannot just sit around expecting something to happen.

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Nothing will work unless you do.

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything.

You don't get to where you are by just sitting on your butt and expecting it to come.

'Better do it than wish it done,' is a phrase ingrained in my mind.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

No one ever accomplished anything great sitting down.

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.

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.

Nothing works unless you do the work.

Do more than dream. Work.

To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

We've been working our tail off and lead by that example.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.