Stephen Covey Quotes

Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Conte is correct - talent needs to be nurtured on a daily basis with hard work.

That's kind of how I see my workmanship: it's how many hours I put in that makes me better.

My dad told me, 'If you're going to go out there and play baseball, or you're going to play basketball or football, work hard at it no matter what. I want you to have fun with your buddies, but you have to put in the time because this is your craft.' He didn't just want me to be good. He pushed me to that next level.

It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You'll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.

You can't be afraid of hard work or long hours. Sacrifice is important.

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored

You must be willing to do things today others won't do, in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

Brilliant results don't just show up by chance. The finest things in life take patience, focus and sacrifice.

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.