Mao Zedong Quotes

Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.

If it required some effort to go from today to tomorrow, some people would always remain in yesterday.

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

It is better to learn late than never.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

Great is the study that brings us into action.

There's an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they've 'nailed it,' most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

Being complacent was never going to teach us anything.

If things are just gliding along easily and there's no real obstacles or hurdles, those typically aren't my most productive times, personally or professionally.

If you stop learning at any time, you start to fall down the leagues.

I live for this. I continue to study. To bump and learn.

You have to improve; that's how you develop.

I knew I had a long way to go with my mechanics.

If a person is too 'satisfied', then he might become complacent, not work so hard to get ahead.

If you're not learning, then you're stagnant. If you're stagnant, then you're not evolving and the business isn't progressing.

As long as you're willing to soak up information and learn from anyone who is worth learning from, that helps you out so much. I can become a new fighter, I can learn new tricks, I can improve my game.

Of course everyone has those moments of frustration now and then, when you say, 'I wish I could play well already - or just stop.' But it's too much trouble to stop just for a moment of frustration. It is when you keep going that you make the most progress.

I've been studying myself because I always want to improve.

Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.

Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.

There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.

If you think you've stopped learning, you're going to get lapped.