James Agee Quotes

I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.

The key to anyone's success is staying with it!

Discipline - Success doesn't just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.

SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.

Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.

Whatever you do, stay focused. Because any stuff is not going to last forever. Once you get a show at something, you gotta roll with it. You can't sit on your ass. You better keep working. You better stay motivated.

Many successful people are no more talented than unsuccessful people. The difference between them lies in the old axiom that successful people do those things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

I take pride knowing that I hustle, day in and day out.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

I've always relied on discipline to achieve goals great and small. At a young age, my father instilled a real work ethic in me - and a fear of men. I always felt like if I didn't have a natural knack for something, I could kind of out-discipline the competition as it were. So I would always work as hard as I possibly could, sometimes to my own detriment and my personal life. For me, I think will power and discipline are very synonymous.

The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you're going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

You have to stay focused and be mentally tough. That's what I've really learned: every day is a grind, and you have to go hard.