If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream.
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.
Success isn’t owned. It’s leased. And rent is due every day.
I hate that word – “lucky.” It cheapens a lot of hard work. Living in Brooklyn in an apartment without any heat and paying for dinner at the bodega with dimes – I don’t think I felt myself lucky back then. Doing plays for 50 bucks and trying to be true to myself as an artist and turning down commercials where they wanted a leprechaun. Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn. So I won’t say I’m lucky. I’m fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.
I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. When I feel pain, that’s when I start counting, because that’s when it really counts.
You don’t set out to build a wall. You don't say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there. You say, ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall.
You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
Stop being average. You’re not even good. You were born to be great.
Everybody has a dream, but not everybody has a grind.
Monday, I grind. Tuesday, I grind. Wednesday, I grind. Thursday, I grind. Friday, I grind. Saturday, I grind. Sunday, I grind. And, that’s why I’m here today.
You can’t sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.
You will never ever be successful, until you turn your pain into greatness, until you allow your pain to push you from where you are to push you to where you need to be. Stop running from your pain and embrace your pain. Your pain is going to be a part of your prize, a part of your product. I challenge you to push yourself.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.