All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
John RuskinDon’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham BellIt is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Helen KellerThis ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
Jackie RobinsonI have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.
Joyce MeyerAmbition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor RooseveltMaybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.
Tom BradyAccountability breeds response-ability.
Stephen CoveyWe should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
Jimmy CarterTake time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon BonaparteI believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
Audrey HepburnIt will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
George EliotIf you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.
Stephen CoveyThe only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.
Madeleine AlbrightWhen a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
Kurt VonnegutI fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.
Charles SpurgeonSelf-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel JohnsonI like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.
Clint EastwoodI’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘
Alice MunroIt is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
Samuel JohnsonIt’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
Lou HoltzYou just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
Bruce LeeI believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Bill GatesBecome aware of your own insufficiency.
Jordan PetersonA great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOnce you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
John F. KennedyWhat a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
Abraham MaslowI focus on my own job.
Lando NorrisWhen you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
Theodore RooseveltPursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David ThoreauNo man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
Napoleon HillThey say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.
Dolly PartonI pity the fool who just gives up.
Mr. TI believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.
Narendra ModiIncrease of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Mahatma GandhiProvidence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
Mahatma GandhiChaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Will RogersMoney won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.
Nelson MandelaI love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.
Virat KohliThere is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
Gilbert K. ChestertonRemember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
Audrey HepburnThe journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao TzuIf you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.
David GogginsYesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence NightingaleIf you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.
Lou HoltzDo you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
Blaise PascalEven after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMen acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
AristotleIf your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
John D. RockefellerThere is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
Brene BrownNo pressure, no diamonds.
Thomas CarlyleI’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas CarlyleDo whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
Friedrich NietzscheI’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.
Clint EastwoodTo put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.
Marilyn MonroeWorking hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
George LucasAn idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford