Carolina Herrera Quotes

Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.

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.

Runnin' this game for five years, guess that's why my feet hurt.

When you've been around the game so much for so many years, it's just like it's a part of you.

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 will work day after day like I did my whole life ... I'm not going to change anything.

It's amazing how far you will get by just staying with something long enough. Most people give up too early.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

I think the older I've gotten the more, like most people, my appreciation shifts towards things that are very difficult, where you see people who have put in tremendous hours and hours of commitment.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

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

Talent is long patience.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

The pain goes away, but your work always remains.

Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work.... A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which may, after all, come sometimes to anyone. But, so to speak, to take up residence on the high plateau .... that is another matter altogether. That tends to be a lifelong effort.

It's hard and continuous dedication that brings lasting results.

Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my running. Running every day is a kind of lifeline for me, so I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.

It took me a lifetime.

Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.

Ask yourself, 'how long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?' I suggest you answer, 'as long as it takes.'

We must patiently practice every day.

You can't be afraid of hard work or long hours. Sacrifice is important.

Before success comes patience... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.

Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances.

The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.