Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

I just try to do the things I'm asked to do.

Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.

McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

Anyone who knows me, knows I don't walk away from a commitment, but I had a commitment to myself. Yes, there were times Nickelodeon made it more difficult than it needed to be, but there were also times they made it easier.

When I was about 12 years old, I knew I had to take the game more seriously if I wanted to be able to provide for my family.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

It was a job, and I was just doing my job.

Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

What you can do is a matter of what you will do.

I did what I was supposed to do.

Commitment cannot be mandated; it can only be invited.

I'm hired to do a job. They expect me to do a job, and that job requires me to get my butt up and get back to the huddle, get the play and go do it another time. And until I can't physically get up, I'm going to do that.

The best way of me not doing things is to demand it from me.

I don't even realize sometimes I am spending hours and hours on the field, because it is something I decide to do, not something someone else demands of me.

When guys were going out to parties, I was going to the gym. I figured, for all my mom sacrificed for me, it was the least I could do.

It's not can you, it's will you

There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.

There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.

We become whatever we are committed to.