We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The greatest gift you can give somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, "If you will take care of me, I will take care of you. "Now I say, I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
If you think you are working hard, you can work harder. If you think you are doing enough, there is more that you can do. No one really ever exhausts his full potential.
To be successful, you have to develop certain traits such as courage, dignity, charisma and integrity. You also have to recognize that you have to work harder on yourself than on your job. You attract success because of the person you are. Personal development is key.
If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.
I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to -- work harder than anybody else.
You find that you have to do many things, more than just lift up the camera and shoot, and so you get involved in it in a very physical way. You may find that the picture you want to do can only be made from a certain place, and you're not there, so you have to physically go there. And that participation may spur you on to work harder on the thing, . . . because in the physical change of position you start seeing a whole different relationship.
If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."
We work harder and we earn less. Income inequality is at the highest point in over a century. While American capitalism never guaranteed success, it did guarantee opportunity, for too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.
I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
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