Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

I believe that anyone can become better, if you put in the effort.

Making an effort is in your hands. Giving 100% is in your hands.

The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

Work hard and never make excuses.

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

One of the things Mother said to me, 'You want this, you're going to practice.' And I know how to practice.

I believe you bet on yourself and you commit to something and you give all your energy and effort to it, and that's what I've done my whole life.

If I put a statement about being the best interviewer into the universe, I must now live up to it, or at least be held accountable for it. Either way, I'm going to work that much harder.

I think if you want to prove something to yourself and not fail there's only one choice and that's to work.

Push yourself every single day to continue to work at yourself. And I feel like that's the reason why I made it.

Every day I get up and I try to do the very best I can.

I just like to keep pushing myself and the sport.

If you want to be the best, you can't take the path of least resistance. Every morning, you wake up, and your mind tells you it's too early, and your body tells you you're a little too sore, but you've got to look deep within yourself and know what you want and what you're striving for.

Throughout COVID, I just consistently grinded at my craft. I didn't let COVID get in the way of my goal and the goal is to be the best me that I can be for the team.

My goal is always to get better every day. No one will ever outwork me. That's how it will always be for me. That will never change.

Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.

Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to - work harder than anybody else.

I have always worked hard, and seeing so many Icelanders make tremendous efforts to cope with difficult tasks and decisions inspires me.