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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
Run with your heart instead of your mind. When you think with your mind, you think of the things you can and can't do. But when you run with your heart you forget about what you can't do, and you just go out and do it.
Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake.
It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
Always do more than is required of you.
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
The harder I work the more I live.
You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
What you think you become.
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose life.
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
