#hard-work

"I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends because I learn things and find ways to fit them into my own world. I hear what people say, rearrange it, take away and tear apart until it finds value in my reality and there I make it work. I find spaces in between the cracks and cuts where it feels empty and there I make it work."

"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."

"The only thing we wanted our young organization to give was an opportunity. We would say to children and to their families: "If you are willing to work hard and make sacrifices and think long term, then Room to Read is the best organization for you. If you're looking for a handout, then you should look elsewhere."

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

"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."

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

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

"We can live forever even with an impactful shorter-life."

"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?"

"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."

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

"Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You...Be Free...Share."

"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing."

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

"Too many irons, not enough fire."

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

"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."