Confucius Quotes

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.

I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.

To be stronger, you finish everything you start. You can't take a break.

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

I will work day after day like I did my whole life ... I'm not going to change anything.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

The commitment. I think that's the key quality of all successful people. You just have to keep at it. People who enjoy sustained success understand the fact that you have to remain very committed to whatever it is you're doing, especially in this instant-gratification culture.

Just put one foot in front of the other and don't worry about the length of the path. Once you get on that path, and the longer you stay on it, there eventually will come a time when you will not turn back.

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.

Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.

I'm disciplined. And I'm persevering. And I don't give up very easily... and I'm reliable.

We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We're just going to stay the course.

Enduring to the end is a process filling every minute of our life, every hour, every day, from sunrise to sunrise. It is accomplished through personal discipline following the commandments of God.

Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

I'm kind of a grinder.

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.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.

Talent is long patience.

Sticking to it is the genius.