Peter Bondra Quotes

All great achievements require time.

Progress takes time and discipline.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Accolades are there to congratulate you but also to make you understand that it's not over. You now have to continue trying to improve the craft and keep going. It's not something to rest on.

I had started as an average athlete - a normal boy. It took me three years to win a race. I was glad that I endured those three years - that I did not give up.

You work hard. You have a dream. You don't give up.

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

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

Winning starts with beginning.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

For anyone aspiring to be anything, I would like them to realise dreams require work. So work big time.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

I had to work at everything.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.

There's no escalators - there's only staircases to success. There is no substitute for hard work.

Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.

The key to my perseverance was absolutely loving the craft of acting. I just figured that if I kept doing it, at the very least I would get better at acting. Even if I didn't become a tremendous success, as long as I knew I was improving and getting better, to me, that was success.