William James Quotes

My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

I used to make my manager Jamie not tell me where I was going to be the next day, because I was so afraid of flying and of anything. But now I love flying, I love working hard, I love being around the world.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.

As you progress in your career, your character progresses and evolves.

But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.

My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.

If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.

Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.

If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.

God’s priority isn’t your destination but your development. God’s priority isn’t the dream but the dreamer.

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

I am convinced that we become what we do.

I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.

Let work itself be the ambition.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.

There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.

I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear. So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.

The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.