Thoughts & Quotes
I like to say that achieving your business goals requires passion, purpose, planning, persistence, and propulsion. Is it hard work? It can be, but when you are properly aligned and doing what you are supposed to be doing, the hard work doesn’t seem so hard.
Here are some quotes from others on the topic of “hard work”:
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
– Vince Lombardi
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
– Colin Powell
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
– Margaret Thatcher
Let me add a few quotations that further define passion, purpose, planning, persistence (or perseverance), and propulsion:
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
– Oprah Winfrey
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
– John F. Kennedy
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
– Peter Drucker
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
– Newt Gingrich
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
– Denis Waitley
Propulsion is action, energy, movement, execution.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
– Pablo Picasso
Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
– Bradley Whitford
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a firm believe in the power of dreams, because the world is basically one giant realization of people’s collective dreams come true. We need to dream to aspire to do something that keeps us striving. But those dreams and ideas and wants mean nothing without execution, which doesn’t usually happen without a plan.
– Luvvie Ajayi
As a parting thought:
Don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.
– Leroy Hood
