Howard Gordon Quotes

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I'm proud to say that these goals have been achieved.

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

I'm happy for the success that I've had, but I've worked so hard at it.

It was painful, but I really wanted to get 'Hollow City' right, and I'm glad I put in the time because I'm really proud of it.

Winning is, of course, rewarding; who doesn't enjoy winning? But for me, it's about more than just winning: it's about knowing I'm putting in the day-to-day work to get a little bit better every time.

I won an award when I was 15 and my mum and dad were very proud and so was I but for me, individual things like that aren't as significant as I have been part of so much and there were weeks and months of hard work building up to those pinnacle moments and they can be full of moments of pride.

Everyone must remember that when you experience success, you should never leave behind the cause of it - which is effort and dedication.

The medal just was an object, just a medal, and that's it. What really meant something was the blood, the sweat, the tears that went into getting that medal. I'll always have the memories of that with me.

I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

What is golden is miles under your belt, miles, miles, miles.

Genuine effort is success.

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

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best.

I believe that anyone can become better, if you put in the effort.