Elaine Stritch Quotes

I don't need an Emmy to tell me to go to work. I've been working.

The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT.

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy.

It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals.

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

You have to do what you have to do. I wanted to work. I wanted to prove that I was worthy of being here... and I was gonna do whatever it took to prove that.

I've always surrounded myself with people who are driven. You can be gorgeous, but if you don't want to work for it, nothing is not going to happen.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.

I work because I want to work. Work keeps me going.

A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interested, provided that he will take more thought about his job than the men working with him. The fellow who sits still and does what he is told will never be told to do big things.

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.

Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.

I just love to work hard.

For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.

Stay focused and stay determined. Don't look to anyone else to be your determination - have self-determination. It will take you very far.

The biggest thing is, if you want it still, you'll do everything you need to do to make sure you extend your career.

I'm motivated and driven, and I have been from a young age.

A success, to me, is the ability to keep working. That's success. It has nothing to do with money; it's the ability to keep getting things made, period.

I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I?

I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.