Mark Vonnegut Quotes

You don't wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult - you have to work hard to become them.

Change takes effort. And the reality is, most people don't want to put in effort to better their life.

One thing I've learned in life is that natural talent only takes you so far, and I've always wanted to grow.

I work every day to improve and reach my top.

Some people are just naturally good. I always found ways to become good.

I have to keep playing and growing and giving my best.

It really helps you grow as an individual and a ball player to realize that nothing comes easy in this league, and you have to work for everything.

I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

I think she's going to be better and better if she works hard.

The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.

I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don't short-change yourself. Keep working to get better.

Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I hope we aren't becoming a nation of watchers, because what made us great is that we've always been a nation of doers.

I think confidence comes from doing something well, working at it hard, and you build it up. It's not something you're born with. You have to build the confidence as you go along.

If you want learning, you must work for it.

It's what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.

I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best that I could.

Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence.

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

Sometimes you get lucky - you don't put much work in and you're successful anyway. But over the course of time, if you really want to shape your path, I think it's about the quality of the time you put in.

Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.