Robert Fulghum Quotes

There are a lot of things in business that are completely out of your control, but hard work isn't one of them.

Life is about hard work and getting on with things.

You can't be afraid of hard work or long hours. Sacrifice is important.

Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay.

Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

The Bible says "faith without works is nothing" so destiny is great, fate is great, faith is great - but you still have to work at it. I don't just sit at home and wait for it all to unfold.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

We're getting rewarded. We don't give up on the play and we show some character at the same time, but there is a long way for us to get to where we want to be.

I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.

In order to be something, you must do something.

Nothing will work unless you do.

You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.

I think you have regrets when you didn't give it everything you had, and I always felt like I did. Whether it was good enough or not, that has nothing to do with the fact that I tried my best to give my team a chance to win, year in and year out.

Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

I had to work at everything.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

You just put your head down and do the work.

I've never shied away from hard work.

I always thought, 'That's just the way you do it.' You work as hard as you can for as long as you can, and the small gains you make will eventually pay off.

You've got to be the first one in the door and last one out.

Hard work is the only way to success. You have to be tough, stay tough.