Tupac Shakur Quotes

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

Work alone is noble.

I don't believe in handouts, I believe in working hard for what you want.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.

This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.

I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.

It's about working when nobody's watching.

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

I always felt like we were here to do a job, so you should be out there practicing and playing.

It's my only religion to work hard, and then I'm not under any pressure because I know I've done the work on the character.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.

Always plenty to do. Cannot well be idle and believe will rather wear out than rust out.

You know, I think it's so ironic that we're calling hard work, striving for excellence, don't blame others, you know, don't give up, that we're calling these, quote, 'Chinese values,' 'cause I always thought of them as American values.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you've got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.

My parents taught me that work ethic is one of the most important keys in life, and I believe it.

I like challenging myself. I'm not a person who likes not to work.