We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Well done is better than well said.
Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
A year from now you may wish you had started today.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.
Unless you puke, faint or die, keep going.
Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom.