Joseph Haydn Quotes

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

I didn't corner the market on great stories. I'm not the only one who can do something like work at a grocery store and then win a Super Bowl. Other people can do it. You hope people will see that and say, 'Hey, that will be me.' They're going to chase after it like I did. And they're going to be the next one.

One of the greatest things about our band is that we bring the American dream to the world. Here's a bunch of kids that were living in nowhere New Jersey, and we made it through a lot of practice and a lot of work and a lot of luck. It shows the world, 'If we did it, you can do it.'

The sky is the limit when you work hard.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.

I am proof that the American dream still exists.

The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.

I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

I was a sheet metal worker, then a metal engineer, then a Pontin's bluecoat, then a comedian. You can achieve anything you want if you put your mind to it.

When you reach for the horizon, as I've proven, you may not get there, but what a tremendous build of character and spirit that you lay down. What a foundation you lay down in reaching for those horizons.

Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration!

I've always been stimulated by the sense of challenge.

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.

The secret to climbing up is to put your heart into your work.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears.

I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.

Success is the best revenge for anything. Keep ya head down and work hard to achieve.

The thing that I think about the most, and is the most rewarding to me, is the whole past. That I kind of went from nothing to something and I did it on my own, and I did it through hard work and smarts.

Some people don't take me seriously, so I had to work harder.