John C. Maxwell Quotes

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

You've just got to have to put the work in. Put work first. Put the hours in and the time in, and do your job. And when you get a little time off, you can go out and have a little fun. But you have to make sure you get done what you need to get done first off.

There's a lot that's out of your control. But the one thing that you can control is your work ethic.

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

The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa's time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep-they called it work.

I'm just living my life. I'm incredibly disciplined and I work incredibly hard. I show up for things on time, I do my homework, and I work my ass off. I've had a lot of luck, but I work really, really hard.

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

Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.

Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.

Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.

All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

There's no secret. Just work hard.

You have to have a work ethic. It is always 24/7. It is a lot of sweat equity, and it is a little bit of Lady Luck.

Work harder than anybody you've ever seen. That's what I believe.

I believe in hard work. I think that everything flows out of that.

Discipline is important for everything in life.

I've been working hard my whole life.