John C. Maxwell Quotes

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

Don’t look at other people and compare yourself. Just do the work. Because when the opportunity is there, you have to be ready. Make sure your craft is refined and you’re constantly working on it. Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

You have to keep trying to get better.

The hardest thing for me is to be patient and realize that it's not all going to happen right now. I just have to keep digging away, digging away. Just keep working on my game.

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.'

Keep on doing what you're doing.

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.

I keep my feet on the ground, keep dedicated, keep focused, underestimate nobody and obviously you need the ability, talent and everything else that goes with it.

Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

Talent is long patience.

Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.

In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

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

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

Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.

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.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.

I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.

Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.