Alan Bennett Quotes

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

I've always had a thing where, if I start something, it's gotta get finished. No matter how long it takes, I've gotta see it to fruition.

It's important to complete things and finish what you started.

Whenever I start something, I try to finish it.

I firmly believe if you start something, you should finish it.

My father John taught me about hard work and the importance of manners.

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

When you're a professional you gotta do it [your job] when you don't feel like doing it.

When you have everything in life, sometimes kids don't learn what is right and what is wrong. Kids cannot get whatever they want.

My father gave me discipline.

No matter the situation, I stay focused and motivated on my goals because that's the way I was raised.

You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.

There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.

Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

I've always worked. I have always been too responsible. But I don't know how to live any other way. I think that this discipline was also demanded of me by my work.

I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way.

Starting is easy. Finishing is hard.

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

My mother taught me the most important principles, to be determined in life, to be disciplined, to be able to understand that there are some things that you can't do and other things you have to do, that you always have to be surrounded by love, that you have to be understanding.

Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

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