Gong Yoo Quotes

I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.

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

Work alone is noble.

The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

I earn everything that I get.

I don't want anything handed to me, I want to work for everything I have... that's the way I've done everything in my life.

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

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

The big things I've had are things I bought myself.

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be.

The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.

I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

I'm a very competitive person, but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be, and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else, then so be it. But I don't go around comparing and contrasting myself with other actors if I can help it. It's also, I think, the key to my success.

I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.

Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.

Work hard, take care of yourself, and you'll be just fine.

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You've got to put in the work. You've got to grind. You've got go through the struggle, and you've got to get it.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

You cannot build a company or manage a life by chasing others; you have to find your success competing against yourself. There will always be a bigger fish.

I want to be great, and that's holding myself to my standards, not anybody else's.

I don't know how I have got this habit, but I try to play one match and give it my best - it doesn't matter which level of cricket I am playing in. It gives me satisfaction that I am not thinking about others, not competing with others.