Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes

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

The book Relentless' is an awesome book. It taught me a lot about just staying consistent, being level-headed, being relentless at what you want to do.

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.

I keep my feet on the ground, keep dedicated, keep focused, underestimate nobody and obviously you need the ability, talent and everything else that goes with it.

Talent is long patience.

Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.

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.

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

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 just keep working.

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.

I don't want to leave the field for a little thing. I try to be ready every day.

It gets hard no matter what it is you're doing - school, work - the only way you're going to do it is if you stay consistent and focused.

With back-to-backs, a lot of games, sometimes you think, 'I've got to take a day off today.' But you have to push through it. The greats did.

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

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 know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.

The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.

I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doing anything consistent about it is often abysmal.

Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.

Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?... There'll likely be a point of diminishing returns, a point where my strength will begin to wane. Until then, I'll just keep plodding onward, putting one foot in front of the other to the best of my ability. Smiling the entire time.