If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.
The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.
Keep working. Don’t wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working.
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.
If you don’t play to win don’t play at all.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
Good is the enemy of great. That’s why so few things become great.
Good is the enemy of great.
The only thing in your control is effort. That’s all, and that’s everything.
Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.
Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.