Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

I always finish what i start

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you're wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You should be working.

I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn't instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way.

I say, 'You can never use excuses because they always run out.'

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

Work hard and never make excuses.

You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championship. That's kind of how I work. You celebrate for a brief moment, then you move on.

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

If you really want something, you'll make it work.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

I don't think I've had to change anything, really, apart from being more serious and focussed on my drive. One thing I've realised is that you get out what you put in and because of that my work rate has increased ten fold.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.

There was a moment in time where I was really focused on the Navy and I followed through with it - I passed the test. I was happy with myself because I was accomplishing something and I was really working towards a goal. That was the first true thing I invested my energy in.

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