#hard-work

"Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll."

"We had a policy of "no looking back". Once a decision was made, all members of our team were expected to stop talking about obstacles and instead focus intensely on solutions."Don't tell us all the reasons this might not work. Tell us all the ways it could work."

"Do not let your good ideas to spend your brain energy, do it with all the effort because the shadow of the success can become a reality only with hard work."

"It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them."

"The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything."

"In a good economy, people work hard to succeed. In a bad economy, people work hard to not fail."

"As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning."

"If I told you I’ve worked hard to get where I’m at, I’d be lying, because I have no idea where I am right now."

"Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes."

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."

"Do I attribute my success to hard work, or sunscreen? If you want the truth, maybe you should ask my new albino secretary."

"Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything."

"Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard."

"What’s the point of being the first to arrive? Nobody is there to witness your commitment."

"I’m not a very good sleeper. But you know what? I’m willing to put in a few extra hours every day to get better. That’s just the kind of hard worker I am."

"If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault."

"I’m a master of encouragement. Why should I do work myself when the price of getting others to do it for me is as cheap as cheering them on?"

"Your education is important because with only a few words you can show an employer the depth of your potential."

"The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies."

"As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial."