Henry Drummond Quotes

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

Developing Christlike attributes in our lives is not an easy task, especially when we move away from generalities and abstractions and begin to deal with real life. The test comes in practicing what we proclaim.

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.

I've always, for whatever my faults have been, felt like I've never done anything halfway.

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

You don't wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult - you have to work hard to become them.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.

As an athlete, success is not just about winning; it is about working hard and giving it all you have. I have always taken one match at a time and worked hard; when I succeeded, I worked further on the aspects of the game which worked for me; when I failed, I listed out my weaknesses and worked on them.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

You know, I think it's so ironic that we're calling hard work, striving for excellence, don't blame others, you know, don't give up, that we're calling these, quote, 'Chinese values,' 'cause I always thought of them as American values.

You've got to make an effort on your own. Some people don't even try.

I try to do my best.

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

He who is educated and eloquent must not measure his saintliness merely by his fluency.

That was a sacred effort.

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

I always have a slight sense of sadness when Ramadan ends. It's such an amazing, blessed month. For me it is like a training camp for the year. You reflect on your life and things you can improve on. And it's not about food and drink, it's about learning to be a better person.