A Quote by Terry Orlick

Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

Terry Orlick

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Terry Orlick
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Born: May 21, 1945

Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

You have to earn money the hard way. Because no-one will serve it up to you on a silver platter.

Gordon Wu

Realizing your goal, resolution, or transformation is a journey. Change, like any meaningful endeavor, proceeds sequentially through steps. The journey begins with the contemplation stage of specifying realistic goals, getting ready, or getting psyched. The planning stage is all about prepping. How exactly will I do this thing? At some point you will jump from preparing and planning to perspiring, the work of implementing the new, desired behavior. Getting there is wonderful, but we need to keep you there, which entails persevering through slips and, finally, persisting over time.

John C. Norcross

I realize now that it is a serious business requiring honest, hard work. The first time Hollywood was served up to me on a silver platter. I've finally gotten rid of the platter.

Sterling Hayden

Let my hands be of service to people. Let me earn wisdom through my hands. Let my hands do good work

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.

Gerald R. Ford

Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

Alicia Keys

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.

Katarina Witt

When we face seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the fulfillment of righteous responsibilities, we should remember that when we are involved in the work of the Lord, the obstacles before us are never as great as the power behind us. We should reach out and climb. Handholds will only be found by hands that are outstretched. Footholds are only for feet that are on the move.

Dallin H. Oaks

Nothing's handed to you on a silver platter. Everything takes work, no matter how many records you put out.

Lights

The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.

Guy Finley

I'd be the biggest hypocrite if I said I really worked very hard for my career, because it was given to me on a silver platter. I can't take any credit.

Fabio Lanzoni

I never had any forefathers. I was never handed anything on a silver platter.

Raj Kundra

All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it.