William Glasser Quotes

That was something I needed to learn, to understand that you can work hard and enjoy it, too.

There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Confidence is a crucial building block in a successful career, and embracing it fully will take you places you never thought possible. With proper guidance and hard work, anyone can become more confident. Once you pass a certain point, you'll feel it from the inside.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

It's annoying to sit at home and not go to work. But I feel it's better to wait and do something that will be seen and appreciated.

Do I think people who need a good opportunity become harder workers sometimes? Yes.

I want to have my career, not sit on the bench. I want to work hard, to push myself. I want to play.

Competition can only make you as an individual better and let you perform better, it can only be a positive thing.

If you work hard and you work for somebody who empowers you and challenges you, you'll be successful.

This happens to me every couple of years. I'll look at someone I respect and I'll realize that he's outworking me. It changes the way I behave for the next half decade.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

My life doesn't change. I still have to go out and work hard every day and do the best that I can do.

I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school contest, and the prize was a bunch of personal training sessions.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom.

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.

I'm motivated by very small successes.

It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

I always want to work.

I don't know about other people, but I love to work.

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

I feel challenged every day, when I come to work. I feel like I have to step up my game, and that's a great thing.