Rafael Nadal Quotes

The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

You have to be un-compromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared. Commitment cannot be compromised by rewards.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

I'm kind of a grinder.

It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts.

The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.

I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.

The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.

We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We're just going to stay the course.

Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

It had been better not to begin a good work, than to think of desisting from one which has been begun.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

Being inspired is fine for a week, and being motivated might work for a month or so, but to make any lifestyle change last a lifetime, you need dedication.

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.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.

The common denominator for success is work.

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.

Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and over.

Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your job is to dance, do your dance. If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your case decides to let some sort of wonderment be glimpsed, for just one moment through your efforts, then 'Ole!' And if not, do your dance anyhow. And 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless. I believe this and I feel that we must teach it. 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.

The commitment. I think that's the key quality of all successful people. You just have to keep at it. People who enjoy sustained success understand the fact that you have to remain very committed to whatever it is you're doing, especially in this instant-gratification culture.