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Work Ethic Quotes

    “Visualization will never compensate for work undone.  You cannot visualize lies.  All the strategies I employ to answer the simple questions and win the mind game are only effective because I put in work.  It’s a lot more than mind over matter.  It takes relentless self-discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day, but if you do, you’ll find that at the other end of that suffering is a whole other life just waiting for you.” ~ David Goggins, Can’t Hurt Me

      “The reason it’s important to push hardest when you want to quit the most is because it helps you callous your mind.  It’s the same reason why you have to do your best work when you are the least motivated.” ~ David Goggins, Can’t Hurt Me

        “Genes can’t make you successful if you’re not doing the work.  Yes, it’s possible that the ripped trainer at they gym has better genes, but if you haven’t put in the same reps, it’s impossible to say if you have been dealt a better or worse genetic hand.  Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck.” ~ James Clear, Atomic Habits

          “I am just an average man, but by God I work harder than the average man.” ~ Winston Churchill, via The Way of the Seal

            “Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

              “Every time you sit down to work, remind yourself: I am delaying gratification by doing this.  I am passing the marshmallow test.  I am earning what my ambition burns for.  I am making an investment in myself instead of in my ego.  Give yourself a little credit for this choice, but not so much, because you’ve got to get back to the task at hand: practicing, working, improving.” ~ Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy

                “Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work.  It means you’re the least important person in the room – until you change that with results.” ~ Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy

                  “Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.” ~ Rita Mae Brown, via Blog of Jonathan Fields

                    “Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.” ~ Simone Weil, via Solitude

                      “I like my feet to be the first footprints in the sand.” ~ Kevin Garnett