William James Quotes

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.

Everything good requires sacrifices.

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.

Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves...help you.

The sacrifice always has to be greater than the dream.

Passion is never enough; neither is skill.

You must be willing to do things today others won't do, in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.

To achieve anything great in life you must be willing to make a sacrifice.

Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire.

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

Success isn't something you chase. It's something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it'll come when you least expect it. Most people don't understand that.

Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day.

It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.

Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you'll always have a chance.

Recovery isn’t easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you’re willing to do. But it is worth every hard day, every tear, every terrified moment. It’s worth it, because the trade-off is this: you let go of your eating disorder, and you get back your life.

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

It's incredibly important that if you have the dream of having your own house, you don't pretend to be something you're not. Ultimately, it's unsustainable and people will see through. You have to work; you can't expect your dreams to be handed to you on a plate.

You can use the same motto for everything in life. If you put that effort in, you'll get what you want.