If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
Terry PratchettWorking hard is important. But there is something that matters even more: believing in yourself.
J. K. RowlingExcellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
AristotleI want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
George Bernard ShawGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham LincolnWork like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
Satchel PaigeOpportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. EdisonSome people see things that are and ask "Why?" Some people dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?" Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ...
George CarlinIf you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
Steve Jobs