How do the greatest basketball players make everything look so easy? Through hard work. Whether on the basketball court, in the classroom, in the office, or in the home, the price of victory is through consistent effort and hard work. Simply put: Work works!
There is one thing I can control. I will never be outworked.
You may have good luck or you may have bad luck: but remember, you make your own luck.
It's one thing to say you're going to do it. It's another thing to go out and do it.
Never be satisfied or content. Always want more and you'll compete more.
Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.
Our days are identical suitcases -- all the same size -- but some people can pack more into them than others.
The way to get to the top is to get off your bottom.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
It's not how many hours you put in but how much you put into the hours.
Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired -- you quit when the gorilla is tired.
The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
-- Thomas JeffersonBy failing to prepare, you prepare to fail.
Talk about what one is going to do means little; doing it means all.
When you're through improving, you're through.
Hard work can be fun.
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."
-- Vidal Sassoon"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others willing to let them."
-- Robert Frost"He who stops being better stops being good."
-- Oliver Cromwell"Nothing will work unless you do."
-- John Wooden"To do nothing is the way to be nothing."
-- Nathaniel Howe"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."
-- Italian Proverb"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
-- Thomas EdisonThe man on top of the mountain did not fall there.
"Strivers achieve what dreamers believe."
-- UsherIf you put in the work, the results will come.
I will get ready and then, perhaps, my chance will come.
Lord, give me the determination and tenacity of a weed.
"Push yourself again and again...don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds."
-- Larry Bird"Practice without improvement is meaningless."
-- Chuck Knox"I played as hard as I could...That's all I want to be remembered for."
-- Larry Bird"You must have confidence in your ability to perform the act required. This comes from practice."
-- Tony Alfonso"By perseverance, the snail reached the ark."
-- Charles Spurgeon"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."
-- Muhammad AliThe only thing in life achieved without effort is failure.
Some dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.
A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills.
"Whenever I think I can't do something, I'm usually right. Whenever I think I can do something, I'm usually right again. Whenever I put 50 percent effort into a task, I'm usually 50 percent satisfied with the results."
-- David RichQuit the CRYING and WHINING, and start the GRITTIN' and GRINDING!
The amount of confidence you have is directly proportional to how hard you work.
When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool.
"Consider the postage stamp; it's usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."
-- Josh Billings"Temporary Inconvenience -- Permanent Improvement."
-- sign at road construction site"If I do not practice one day, I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it. If I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it."
-- Ignace Paderewski"If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all."
-- Michelangelo"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."
-- Thomas Edison"Before I get in the ring, I'd have already won or lost it out on the road. The real part is won or lost somewhere far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road before I dance under those lights."
-- Muhammad Ali"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done."
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning“The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching”
-- Anson DorranceWork harder than the opposition.
"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work."
-- H.L. Hunt"It is better to wear out than to rust out."
-- Bishop Richard Cumberland"Do or do not. There is no try."
-- Yoda"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."
-- Peter DruckerHard Work Quotations[Page 1]
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