Ken Blanchard Quotes

You have to be un-compromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared. Commitment cannot be compromised by rewards.

To be stronger, you finish everything you start. You can't take a break.

You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.

Leadership is like exercise. Do it everyday, the results take time but you will see them. It's the little things.

I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'

Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.

Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

Diligence is not easy, but we can't reach our goals without it.

It's important to work hard - there's no short cut around that.

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

Work hard and never make excuses.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

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.'

I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.

Discipline has been a key factor to my success.

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.