Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

In order to achieve great things in your life, you have to be consistent in what you are doing.

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

Slow but steady wins the race.

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

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

A consistent and heart-filled effort to completion is the foundation of excellent work.

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

I've learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like doing today, but for a payoff we'll love tomorrow. Earn it. Enjoy it.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

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

One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

Slow, steady progress is better than fast, daily excuses.

Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

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

[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

One thing we can all control is effort. Put in the time to become an expert in whatever you’re doing. It will give you an advantage because most people don’t do this.

Diligence is not easy, but we can't reach our goals without it.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .

There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.