Seth Godin Quotes

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you're going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.

I think one of my biggest lessons so far in life is that hard work really does pay off. It may not culminate in the way you expected it to, but I have found that when I really put my head down and apply myself, I often get a good result.

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

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

Get your hustle on... Hard work is easy, working out is hard.

Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren't necessarily the most wonderful athletes. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.

You've just got to keep playing and keep working hard to get where you're supposed to be.

The key to anyone's success is staying with it!

There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.

Just got to keep going out there and keep swinging. That's all I can really do. Getting work in, doing everything I can to get ready for the game.

You've just got to keep going through the tough times and try your best every time you play.

I always believe every team that wins has to go through some things.

Just keep going hard.

I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'