Quotes About Effort

Most of the advice I have received revolves around taking advantage of all the Performance Center has to offer and always giving my best, so I have no regrets.

I can control my effort, how hard I work and taking advantage of the opportunities.

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

Your hard work and talent will not pay off.

All the money I have, I made with my talent.

I think most of my success is my dedication, not my talent.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

My talent lies in my hard work.

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

You can have all the talent in the world, but if you don't bring it every night then nothing matters.

Without work, talent is lost.

I remember some people after the Olympics that had no idea about horses would ask, 'Do you do that with the horse, or does the horse do it by itself?' I think the fact that you can make it look like you are doing nothing is a real talent. And it is such a massive reward at the end of it.

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

See, talent is important, and so is hard work. But if you don't have destiny and good karma on your side, talent cannot do the magic by itself.

People think it comes easy to us because we are from a family full of musicians, but I feel it's all about talent.

When you've got some talent, your job is to use it.

Talent is not enough. You need to be in the right place at the right moment.

The old adage about acting - that it's 98% energy and 2% talent - is true, you know.

Talent doesn't always equal success.

I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.

I don't think I was a naturally born talent, surely I had some natural attributes, which perhaps helped me in my sport, but generally speaking I wasn't competitive in nature.

There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.