Top 83 No Shortcuts Quotes
#1. There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.
Richard Lugar
#2. There are no shortcuts. I approached practices the same way I approached games. You can't turn it on and off like a faucet. I couldn't dog it during practice and then, when I needed that extra push late in the game, expect it to be there. Very few people get anywhere by taking shortcuts.
Michael Jordan
#3. I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
Judy Collins
#4. The most tried and true way to put God first is to read His Word, the Bible, and obey it. There are no shortcuts to spiritual growth.
Jim George
#6. There's no substitute for a regular, smart trainning. No shortcuts, no secrets. Practice well and often, and you'll get there.
David Belle
#7. I think my secret is that there's no shortcuts for hard work, determination and having that don't give up attitude.
Jerry Rice
#8. There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
Bill Belichick
#9. There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#10. You've got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.
Russell Simmons
#11. Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#12. There are no shortcuts. There are no substitutes. Success is a derivative of persistence.
Mark Batterson
#13. When the reward is the activity itself
deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best
there are no shortcuts.
Daniel H. Pink
#14. There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt.
Dave Ramsey
#15. I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.
Cesar Chavez
#16. It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.
Mark Cuban
#17. For both optimal health and weight loss, you must consume a diet with a high nutrient-per-calorie ratiothere are no shortcuts.
Joel Fuhrman
#18. The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace.
Thomas Merton
#19. There are no shortcuts through the wilderness of life.
Seth Adam Smith
#20. In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor ... Being true is different than being honest.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#21. There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.
Frank Leahy
#22. I'm the kind of person who always follows the manual. No shortcuts.
Russell Banks
#23. We weren't trying to just go public and get rich. There was no near-term thing. It always was this many-decades thing where there were no shortcuts and we'd sort of put one foot in front of the other.
Bill Gates
#24. I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life - and,
sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every
painful inch of it - no shortcuts and no anesthesia.
Michele Bardsley
#25. There are no shortcuts in growing up. The path to maturity is long and arduous. Hurry is no virtue. There is no secret formula squirreled away that will make it easier or quicker. But stories help.
Eugene H. Peterson
#26. In the end, raising money is basically a matter of going out there and asking. There are no shortcuts.
Georgette Mosbacher
#27. There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.
Mark Rippetoe
#28. There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged hundreds of races and thousands of miles of road. I wouldn't be able to win a Tour de France until I had enough iron in my legs, and lungs, and brain and Heart.
Lance Armstrong
#29. There are no shortcuts on the quest for perfection.
Ben Hogan
#31. Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.
Madeleine L'Engle
#32. There are many shortcuts to failure, but there are no shortcuts to true success.
Orrin Woodward
#33. Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.
Wendy Kopp
#34. I dare you to try to shortcut success! It's not going to happen! There are no shortcuts to success!
Eric Thomas
#35. There are no shortcuts because there is no end
Kyuzo Mifune
#36. If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.
Michael Jordan
#38. I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.
Robert Rauschenberg
#40. Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.
Larry L. King
#41. I knew there would be no shortcuts for me in life-we didn't have money or access to people of power. I knew, if I was going to have any success, it would be a result of getting educated and working hard-as hard or harder than my parents did.
Megyn Kelly
#42. I've learned to stay the course. There are no shortcuts. No detours. They take you further away from your goal.
Irene Fantopoulos
#43. Unless you experience the unpleasant symptoms of being wrong, your brain will never revise its models. Before your neurons can succeed, they must repeatedly fail. There are no shortcuts for this painstaking process.
Jonah Lehrer
#44. When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.
Bo Bennett
#45. Do the work. Out-work. Out-think. Out-sell your expectations. There are no shortcuts.
Mark Cuban
#46. To create a usable piece of software, you have to fight for every fix, every feature, every little accommodation that will get one more person up the curve. There are no shortcuts. Luck is involved, but you don't win by being lucky, it happens because you fought for every inch.
Dave Winer
#47. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills
#49. If you take steroids, you have to pay the price. They can kill you; there are no shortcuts. It's like going to bed with a rattlesnake, it's got to get you.
Jack LaLanne
#50. The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.
Christopher Judge
#51. There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
Ben Horowitz
#52. Amber wanted to see special operations open to women and she believed they all should have a shot at going to Ranger School but only if there were no shortcuts, no dumbing down of any of the requirements, the same standards for everyone. And everyone would have the chance to meet them. T
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#53. We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.
James P. Hoffa
#54. Practice is important. The regular season is important. Your meetings are important. Your walk-through is important. Everything is important. You want to be a championship team, there's a price to pay. And that's what you have to do. There's no shortcuts. You can't shortcut your way to success.
Tom Thibodeau
#55. 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.
Sarah Lacy
#56. There's no substitute for work. There are no shortcuts. There are no secrets.
Al Oerter
#58. There are no shortcuts. If you feel good, you'll look good, you'll play good. Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there's no substitute for hard work.
Hope Solo
#59. There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
Ben Hogan
#60. There are no shortcuts to greatness;
all are required to take the long road.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#61. If you chose to go into someone else's reality, you had to be willing to walk. There were no shortcuts.
Alice Sebold
#62. When the doctrine is clear and the culture is beautiful, that church will be powerful. But there are no shortcuts to getting there. Without the doctrine, the culture will be weak. Without the culture, the doctrine will seem pointless.
Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
#63. There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.
Jane Fonda
#64. One bulb at a time. There was no other way to do it. No shortcuts
simply loving the slow process of planting. Loving the work as it unfolded. Loving an achievement that grew slowly and bloomed for only three weeks each year.
Jaroldeen Asplund Edwards
#66. Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside of us, there's always something we could be grateful for.
Barry Neil Kaufman
#67. You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience.
John Gruber
#68. In life there are no short cuts; process is still the best way to get ahead.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#69. There is no fast, easy shortcut for the word abbreviation.
Dana Gould
#70. There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.
William Wilberforce
#71. The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.
George Clooney
#72. The one thing in life you can control is your effort. Are there any shortcuts in the beauty business? No. That was the first lesson I learned. You can't just rocket to the top.
Mark Cuban
#73. No one knows better than I do how far heaven is, but I also know all the shortcuts. The secret is to die, when you want to, and not when He proposes. Or else to force Him to take you before your time.
Juan Rulfo
#74. Maturity cannot be hurried, programmed, or tinkered with. There are no steroids available for growing up in Christ more quickly. Impatient shortcuts land us in the dead ends of immaturity.
Eugene H. Peterson
#75. Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.
William, Saroyan
#76. There is no shortcut to perfection. All it takes is hard work, and more hard work.
Kim Jong-hyun
#77. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
Stephen Covey
#78. Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty
Jordan Belfort
#79. There's this unspoken history that exists between any mother and daughter, no matter how deep and loving the bond is, twenty-five years of being raised by someone, there's a kind of deep history which means that there are shortcuts to getting on each other's nerves.
Stephen Karam
#80. Letting men die is a money-saving device. Safety costs money as one safety official put it, 'When everything is hurry, hurry, hurry, when you start pressuring people and taking shortcuts, things can go wrong. And then people die.' No. And then men die.
Warren Farrell
#81. We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.
Wallace Stegner
#82. She could tell he was heading toward a bad place. She had seen him go there often enough, knew he had shortcuts he could take to get there in no time.
Hugh Howey
#83. There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.
Harrison Salisbury
