Henry Cavill Quotes

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

how hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.

Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.

Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work. Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet, wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.

Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.

There is no success without hardship.

What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you're slamming your head against the wall. So it's nice to make a breakthrough and not kind of lying there with your head bleeding.

Struggling at anything that you want to be doing is hard.

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

If you think about it, there are a lot of parallels between a sportsman's journey and the acting journey. You face so much adversity and disappointment, and you can work incredibly hard for a long time with very little results, and then, hopefully, something happens.

Always it's like big challenge for me. Every point is a big challenge. So I do everything I can.

Whenever you put so much time and effort into one single game, and you go out there and lose, it sucks.

I have put a lot of energy and focus into capturing the Cruiserweight Championship, but obviously I didn't get the job done.

You're going to have to grind it out on some drives.

Any success I have had has not happened overnight; the journey has never felt like me sitting in the back of a limousine sipping champagne. It has always been more like riding up a hill on a pushbike, and the chain has come off.

I've never met a successful person in any walk of life - from Michael Dell to Peyton Manning to Barack Obama - that when you ask that person, 'Hey, how did you get here, and what was your road like?' They say, 'You know what? It was really easy. I slept in all the time, turned my papers in late, didn't pay attention to people and my surroundings.'

I'm a guy who struggled to get to where he is, and only through hard work and dedication have I been able to find my success.