Keylor Navas Quotes

Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.

No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.

Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

Everyone is looking for the hack, the secret to success without hard work.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

Lesson to would-be fame seekers: It's not really a new world when it comes to celebrity. There are no shortcuts. It's still talent, perseverance and hard work. Even the speed and reach of the Net can't create lasting value and income overnight.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

That's what the grind is, doing all the little things knowing that something may not come out of it. It probably won't. But the goal is to get a shot at it.

I've never met a successful person in any walk of life - from Michael Dell to Peyton Manning to Barack Obama - that when you ask that person, 'Hey, how did you get here, and what was your road like?' They say, 'You know what? It was really easy. I slept in all the time, turned my papers in late, didn't pay attention to people and my surroundings.'

It's all just venom to the soul and symptomatic of a larger issue: the idea of the shortcut. The result without the fight. The fight is the thing. The work.

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.

Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.

You have to get your hands dirty. You've got to really deliver the goods, and when you do, you can get something really special.

Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

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.

Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.