Michelle Rhee Quotes

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

Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few marks are made in the world's history by eight-hour-day men.... Sir Joshua Reynolds had but one maxim for success: Work, work, work. Is not rigid and continuous training necessary for the making of strong athletes? Hard work is not fatal to real success. Vouloir c'est pouvoir.

Success always demands a greater effort.

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.

Success supposes endeavour.

Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.

Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.

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

Hell itself must yield to industry.

The road to success is long and up hill all the way

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

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

He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

Remember there is no success without hard work.

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

Failure turns into success. It looks like it happens overnight to other people, but it's just one person's determination to get past a certain goal. Everybody thinks it's an overnight success, but it's not. It's something someone has been working very, very hard on, and more than likely, has been too embarrassed to tell anybody. No one really wants to show other people their failures. They want to show their success.

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.