Seth Godin Quotes

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

Excellence requires discomfort.

I love to strive to be good at stuff that's really hard.

I just want to do something challenging.

Easy doesn't do it.

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

Discomfort is the way to go if you want to make something you feel is worthwhile.

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

I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.

Anything worth doing hurts a little.

If you're not uncomfortable on a daily basis, you're not making much progress.

It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it.

Before anything great is really achieved, your comfort zone must be disturbed.

If you want to achieve something, you have to work a little harder and get out of your comfort zone. That is with everything: relationships, the band, music, athletics. All of the above.

I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. Do what's uncomfortable and scary and hard but pays off in the long run... Let yourself fail... And pick yourself up and fail again. Without that struggle, what is your success anyway?

Do your best to succeed and push the limits without violating them.

You'll always have to fight for what you want. Definitely crossing over and being able to tackle these grittier parts was a challenge, but I feel like I've done it! It's a whole new chapter.

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

To give your best is to receive the best.

If you are in your everyday life, and you feel like you just accomplished something big that you had going on, then that's Beast Mode. It's an accomplishment, that you put yourself through something to get something better out of it. I feel that that's Beast Mode.

If you do not train hard you will never fulfill your potential.

I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.