Stephen Colbert Quotes

You always have to sacrifice something when you want to achieve something.

In the end, the work shows if you're good.

I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others.

If we settle for half measures, we will get nothing more.

As long as you're excellent, things work out for you.

This is the honest-to-God truth: I just focus on the work, because if my work isn't good, then I won't succeed either way.

At the end of the day, nobody cares how much you tried, what the deal was, or if you were a good guy or a bad guy.

If I don't get hits, I don't get hits, but I'm trying to get hits.

There's no point looking good and losing. Winning is what it's all about, and you can't always look spectacular while doing it.

Practicing hard doesn't guarantee you anything.

You talk about results being more important than performances but, ideally, you want to put the two together.

You are not guaranteed to be part of that story if you don't perform.

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

What you concentrate on largely determines the quality and quantity of the results that you get and the success that you enjoy.

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

Some people say there is a beauty about defending. Beauty is nice, but the most important thing is success.

It's really about if you do the work. Work hard; your results will speak for themselves.

I just work hard, and when you work hard, a lot of stuff just starts happening for you.

The expectations are high, so we know: If we do not meet them, there is criticism. We have high expectations ourselves. We are not happy with fourth, third, or second, either.

Winning and losing isn't everything; sometimes, the journey is just as important as the outcome.

I learned in the past that winning takes care of everything. As long as I am worried about winning and doing the right things, everything will work out for me.

Labels are irrelevant. It's the results.

I can't give my secrets away. But I've definitely been putting in a lot of work, and you can kind of see that it pays off a little bit.

What I've seen and learnt from life is that when you give it your best, when you're in it at 100 percent, and you give it your blood, sweat and tears, something beautiful will come out of it.

Any time you come out and bust your tail, good things are going to happen.