"In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might."
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"It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination."
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."
"If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm."
"Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'"
"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame."
"It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day."
"It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious."
"I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it."
"I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard."
"When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God."
"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity."
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
"'Life, Love & Hope' is... I'm thinking 'larger picture.' I'm not trying to preach to anyone. We all get lost and caught up in our everyday problems. Your cellphone doesn't work or you got a parking ticket, you had a bad day at work. You can lose sight of the really important things in life; that's what the song is about."
"With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair."
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
"I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony."
"I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong."
"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today."
"We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love."