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“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
“All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.”
“Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries.”
“The human worker will go the way of the horse.”
“The comeback need to always be more effective than the downfall!”
“If you want it, work for it.”
“A vivid - if somewhat melodramatic - firsthand description of what deliberate practice can feel like comes from dancer Martha Graham: 'Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to t...”
“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to s...”
“Spirituality is not an achievement it is a relationship.”
“We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. ”
“If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.”
“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?”
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
“Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.”
“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”
“Dont let others tell you what you cant do. Don't let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought p...”
“Live the Life of Your DreamsWhen you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-b...”
“When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run ...”
“Because it's worth dreaming and expecting the best from you and others, because once you fulfill your dreams you can make other people happy as well.”
“When you trust your own abilities and those of the people around you, you overcome fear. And when the people you lead trust themselves and you - that you have their best interests at heart and are ...”