Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Don’t take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.
Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.
Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.
Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.
Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillful, swift, and steady.
Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!
Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.
The world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully consecrated to him. By God’s help, I aim to be that man.
Perseverance is another word for faith!
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success.
If you wish to be a writer, write.
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided.
Always do more than is required of you.
Mackay’s Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.
When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust!