Top 40 Tim S. Grover Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Decide. Commit. Act. Succeed. Repeat.”

— Tim S. Grover

2. “Being relentless means demanding more of yourself than anyone else could ever demand of you, knowing that every time you stop, you can still do more. You must do more.”

— Tim S. Grover

3. “Do. The. Work. Every day, you have to do something you don’t want to do. Every day. Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable, push past the apathy and laziness and fear. Otherwise, the next day you’re going to have two things you don’t want to do, then three and four and five, and pretty soon, you can’t even get back to the first thing. And then all you can do is beat yourself up for the mess you’ve created, and now you’ve got a mental barrier to go along with the physical barriers.”

— Tim S. Grover

4. “I’m not telling you to love it. I’m telling you to crave the result so intensely that the work is irrelevant.”

— Tim S. Grover

5. “Get comfortable being uncomfortable, or find another place to fail.”

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6. “Relentless is about never being satisfied, always driving to be the best, and then getting even better.”

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7. “You already know what you have to do, and you know how to do it. What’s stopping you?”

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8. “Success isn’t the same as talent. The world is full of incredibly talented people who never succeed at anything. They show up, do what they do, and if it doesn’t work out, they blame everyone else because they believe talent should be enough. It’s not. If you want to be truly successful, you can’t be content with “pretty good.” You need to find an extra gear.”

— Tim S. Grover

9. “Mental dominance is what ultimately makes you unstoppable.”

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10. “In order to have what you really want, you must first be who you really are.”

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11. “Do. The. Work. Every day, you have to do something you don’t want to do. Every day. Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable, push past the apathy and laziness and fear.”

— Tim S. Grover

12. “Cleaners have a dark side, and a zone you can’t enter. They get what they want, but they pay for it in solitude. Excellence is lonely. They never stop working, physically or mentally, because it gives them too much time to think about what they’ve had to endure and sacrifice to get to the top.”

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13. “Physical dominance can make you great. Mental dominance is what ultimately makes you unstoppable.”

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14. “Here’s the key: I’m not going to tell you how to change. People don’t change. I want you to trust who you already are, and get to that Zone where you can shut out all the noise, all the negativity and fear and distractions and lies, and achieve whatever you want, in whatever you do.”

— Tim S. Grover

15. “The only way you can light other people on fire is to be lit yourself, from the inside.”

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16. “We never saw obstacles or problems, we only saw situations in need of solutions.”

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17. “A true Cleaner never tells you what he’s doing or what he’s planning. You find out after the job is complete.”

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18. “Every accomplishment is just a stepping-stone to the next challenge; as soon as they’ve hit their target, they’re already stalking their next conquest.”

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19. “Being the best means engineering your life so you never stop until you get what you want, and then you keep going until you get what’s next. And then you go for even more.”

— Tim S. Grover

20. “And most people who claim to have killer instinct rarely do, because when you have that kind of power, you don’t talk about it. You don’t think about it. You just use it.”

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21. “Cleaners never feel external pressure; they only believe what’s inside them. You can criticize, analyze, demonize a Cleaner, but he’s still only going to feel pressure from within. He knows what he’s doing right, and what he’s doing wrong. He does not care what you think. He steps out of his comfort zone and challenges himself to get to the next level.”

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22. “Being relentless means never being satisfied. It means creating new goals every time you reach your personal best. If you’re good, it means you don’t stop until you’re great. If you’re great, it means you fight until you’re unstoppable. It means becoming a Cleaner.”

— Tim S. Grover

23. “If you want to be great, deliver the unexpected. If you want to be the best, deliver a miracle.”

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24. “Tell yourself what to do, and stop waiting for others to lay it all out.”

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25. “Ask yourself where you are now, and where you want to be instead. Ask yourself what you’re willing to do to get there. Then make a plan to get there. Act on it.”

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26. “Figure out what you do, then do it. And do it better than anyone else.”

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27. “Cleaners understand they don’t have to love the work to be successful; they just have to be relentless about achieving it, and everything else in between is a diversion and a distraction from the ultimate prize.”

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28. “From this point, your strategy is to make everyone else get on your level; you’re not going down to theirs. You’re not competing with anyone else, ever again. They’re going to have to compete with you. From now on, the end result is all that matters.”

— Tim S. Grover

29. “In anything you do, it takes no talent to work hard. You just have to want to do it.”

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30. “I don’t care how good you think you are, or how great others think you are – you can improve, and you will. Being relentless means demanding more of yourself than anyone else could ever demand of you, knowing that every time you stop, you can still do more. You must do more. The minute your mind thinks, “Done,” your instincts say, “Next.”

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31. “The greats never stop learning. Instinct and talent without technique just makes you reckless, like a teenager driving a powerful, high-performance vehicle. Instinct is raw clay that can be shaped into a masterpiece, if you develop skills that match your talent. That can only come from learning everything there is to know about what you do.”

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32. “People who don’t pursue their own dreams probably won’t encourage you to pursue yours;.”

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33. “You make decisions, not suggestions; you know the answer while everyone else is still asking questions.”

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34. “It’s time to stop listening to what everyone else says about you, telling you what to do, how to act, how you should feel. Let them judge you by your results, and nothing else; it’s none of their business how you get where you’re going. If you’re relentless, there is no halfway, no could or should or maybe.”

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35. “People who preach inner drive are dreamers with a lot of ideas and a lot of talk, and zero production.”

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36. “When all hell breaks loose on the outside, you barely notice; you’re calm on the inside because you’re ready, prepared, and the best at what you do. You don’t tell anyone how you’re going to handle the situation, you just handle it. Everyone else is panicking and choking, and you say, ‘No problem.’ You step on the other guy’s throat, and you finish the fight.”

— Tim S. Grover

37. “Greatness makes you a legend; being the best makes you an icon. If you want to be great, deliver the unexpected. If you want to be the best, deliver a miracle.”

— Tim S. Grover

38. “You don’t have to love it. You just have to believe it’s worth it in the end.”

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39. “It’s not weak to recognize when it’s time to shift directions.”

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40. “Make a plan that truly reflects your goals and interests, and you’ll be more likely to execute. Why pretend you’re going to work out every single day when you know you’re only going to do it three times a week?”

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41. “Don’t tell me the glass is half-full or half-empty; you either have something in that glass or you don’t.”

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42. “The drive to close the gap between near-perfect and perfect is the difference between great and unstoppable.”

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43. “Focus is about controlling your behavior, so it becomes easier to do the right things, and harder to be distracted by the wrong things.”

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44. “If you want to go somewhere new, you have to throw out the tired, old map and stop traveling the same road to the same dead end.”

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45. “Time tells you what you didn’t accomplish. Focus turns off the clock and directs all your energy to the result.”

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46. “Cleaners are rule-breakers when they have to be; they only care about the end result. When things go wrong and everyone else starts to panic, the Cleaner is calm and unflappable, cool and steady, never too high or too low, never too happy or too depressed.”

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47. “When you’ve been knocked down, confidence gives you the patience to stay down for a minute, until you know how to get up better than you were before. Most people jump right back up because they don’t want to look weak and damaged, and then immediately get knocked down again. When you’re confident in your ability to recover, you know you’ll never be weak or damaged again.”

— Tim S. Grover