Hudson Taylor Quotes

Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.

Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.

I said I wanted to be the best in the world. I thought if I could make it, I would be able to change my future, to change my destiny. I would push myself to the limits. I would do 70 laps and barely eat.

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

Do what you need to do, so that you can do what you want to do. Success and convenience do not go together. You have what it takes to be successful, so you have to step up your game and make room for it.

Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.

When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.

I have to work hard. I'm not naturally great at anything. I have to work really, really hard.

I like to push myself, you know.

I love to do something that's challenging to myself, and just to see the success, it makes me go harder and harder the next time.

I'm used to working hard and making sacrifices.

You have to do what it takes to get what you want: I didn't sleep much in school because I worked a lot - you figure out how to make it happen.

The sky is the limit when you work hard.

Anything worth doing hurts a little.

Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.

I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.

Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.

The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.

Do not expect anything; there is more to be gained by earning it.