Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.

I approach every role with the same commitment because I'm being paid for it. To not do so would be unethical.

It had been better not to begin a good work, than to think of desisting from one which has been begun.

I tell my 5-year-old, 'Once you commit to something, stick it out.' I would never want him to look at Dad and think Dad was a quitter.

My father Sam, by his lifelong example, displayed for me the virtues of an honest day's work and of great personal courage.

It doesn't matter if you're a star or not; what is important is that you do your job with absolute honesty.

Stay focused on your mission, remain steadfast in your pursuit of excellence, and always do the right thing.

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.

The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

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

Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your job is to dance, do your dance. If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your case decides to let some sort of wonderment be glimpsed, for just one moment through your efforts, then 'Ole!' And if not, do your dance anyhow. And 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless. I believe this and I feel that we must teach it. 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.

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.

A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again.

We have seen some of the greatest athletes fall because they have tried to take shortcuts. I'm not going to call any names but we talk about guys that was like at the top of their game that people just idolized. They looked in awe and all of a sudden you see them just come tumbling down because they want to take shortcuts. I think it's more rewarding when you do it the old fashioned way.

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

You don't need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.

I've got kids that are always watching and I taught them to always finish something you started.

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

Good things come to those who have patience and take consistent, persistent actions toward what they want.

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

You have to be un-compromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared. Commitment cannot be compromised by rewards.

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