Randy Pausch Quotes

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.

Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother

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

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

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Do your best and keep learning - that's what I believe in.

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

Winning is, of course, rewarding; who doesn't enjoy winning? But for me, it's about more than just winning: it's about knowing I'm putting in the day-to-day work to get a little bit better every time.

My dad always pushes me, tries to make me do better, and maybe that's what gets the best out of me. He's tried to instil that in me.

You're always becoming; you've never arrived. And I use that day by day just for me to work hard each and every day, and know that no matter how good I worked out today, no matter how good I thought I was today, I can always get better and always be a better person.

I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

There is no reason not to be motivated. You cannot always be the best. But you can do your best.

You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I can make a...

As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.

The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.

A lot of can't deal with life because they lack the patience to become who they want to be.... Everything happens by process. If you don't go through the process to get it, you don't have the power to keep it.

I try to live my life to the best, but I just always preach that you should just work hard and do your best.

Do what you need to do, so that you can do what you want to do. Success and convenience do not go together. You have what it takes to be successful, so you have to step up your game and make room for it.

Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

Hard work breeds self-respect.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to out work thousands in front of nobody.

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