H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quotes

Until your mission is an obsession, nothing will change in your life.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

You've got to stay humble and hungry. Just keep working and thank God you have a chance to play in the NBA.

A consistent and heart-filled effort to completion is the foundation of excellent work.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.

It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer, go to the library and start learning the law. If you want to be a rapper, start rapping and get out there. Live your life as if you already are where you want to be.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

Nobody is born as a champion. You have to earn it through hard work. Get started!

It is only when the correct practice is followed for a long time, without interruptions and with a quality of positive attitude and eagerness, that it can succeed.

The secret to climbing up is to put your heart into your work.

Successful people are dreamers who have found a dream too exciting, too important, to remain in the realm of fantasy. Day by day, hour by hour, they toil in the service of their dream until they can see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands.

Ask yourself, 'how long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?' I suggest you answer, 'as long as it takes.'

Good things come to those who have patience and take consistent, persistent actions toward what they want.

People who accomplish great things work toward their objectives every day.

Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.

Before success comes patience... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.

[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

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

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.