Alan Furst Quotes

We should learn to take genuine pride in a job well done and not expect praise for one simply carried out.

I always want to give more than I gave yesterday.

I'm not doing my work for constant success.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

I'm proud of my work, and I try my best.

I've always pushed myself and taken great pride in what I do.

I don't know how I have got this habit, but I try to play one match and give it my best - it doesn't matter which level of cricket I am playing in. It gives me satisfaction that I am not thinking about others, not competing with others.

If doing something with second-rate effort satisfies you, find something else to do - where only your best effort will satisfy you personally.

That's just how I live my life. That's how I was raised: to demand excellence out of myself.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don't think I'd still be playing.

I've tried to let the work I do speak.

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.

I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete.

I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.

I'm never the smartest guy in the room. I'm willing to work harder than most people around me, come earlier, stay later.

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.