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.

Difficult doesn’t mean impossible. It simply means that you have to work hard.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more: believing in yourself.

Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.

Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

Excellence 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.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.

I 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.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

I walk slowly but I never walk backward.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Some 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 ...

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.