Success Through Effort Quotes

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

I'm a Republican, but I'm a Republican from the old school. I was taught that you get what you put into it. You can be anything you want to be if you work hard enough at it, and you can earn your place. That's the old way.

I've never been a basketball prodigy. I've always had to work, earn my way. And that's the way I want it to be.

I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.

My parents worked very hard for everything that they got. Their parents worked hard. It's just something that is passed down to you, and whatever you want to accomplish, you have to work hard to get it, and that's always been that mentality that my family has, and I think that's something that was passed on to me.

That's my upbringing. Try, if it doesn't work out, try again. It was the same thing with Parliament.

Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.

I decided a long time ago that I didn't have to be talented. I just had to be persistent.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

I started at the bottom. Nobody has given me anything.

The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but not in the world of affairs and of service unless they rip off their coats and get to work early and stay late. To be born with a golden spoon in the mouth is more of a handicap than a help in attaining worthwhile success in this age.

It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

I learned you work for what you get, and I feel sorry for people who haven't had that upbringing.

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

I've never had it easy. There have been fortunate coincidences and instances, but nothing has fallen into my lap. Whatever I've achieved has always been through sheer hard work.

I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

I practice so hard, Sundays are easy.

I'd rather be good than lucky.

My fear is we're not teaching competition. We're shielding people from it. For the longest time children, you know, nobody's allowed to win anything, participation trophies. But when you get to real life and if you really want to amount to something, when you get whatever line of work you're in, as you get to the top of that line of work, there are very few people there.

I just want kids all over the world to know you have to practice to be any good in this game; it's too hard.

I worked hard, and if you work hard you get the goodies.