If anyone remembers me, it’s about my hard work.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

My reputation precedes me now.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

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.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That’s how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

So many writers don’t like to write… I like to write, and sometimes I’m afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don’t want to leave it. And as a result, I’ll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I worked my face off.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

I’m committed to the fight game.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

Cardi B put a lot of work in.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.