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But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.
— Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The tears in my pus-filled eyes became a thousand little crystals of ever color. Like stained-glass windows, I thought. God is with you today, Papi! In the midst of nature's monstrous elements, in the wind, the immenseness of the sea, the depth of the waves, the imposing green roof of the bush, you feel your own infinitesimal smallness, and perhaps it's here, without looking for Him, that you find God, that you touch Him with your finger. I had sensed Him at night during the thousands of hours I had spent buried alive in dank dungeons without a ray of sun; I touched Him today in a sun that would devour everything too weak to resist it. I touched God, I felt Him around me, inside me. He even whispered in my ear: "You will suffer; you will suffer more. But this time I am on your side. You will be free. You will, I promise you.
— Henri Charrière
Tears are the safety value of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it .
— Albert Smith
Just as teardrops, when they are large and round and compassionate, can leave a long strand washed clean of discord, the summer rain as it washes away the motionless dust can bring to a person's soul something like endless breathing.
— Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
I want out of this place.With no reminders."It stings -sulphur tearsin cinnamon rain.
— Emma Cameron, Cinnamon Rain
When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.
— John D. MacDonald, The Green Ripper
Dad and I leave town in the early dark. It's the second Sunday of the holidays, and we pack up the old blue car with enough clothes for summer and hit the road. It's so early he's wiping hills of sand piled in the corners of his eyes. I wipe a few tears from mine. Tears don't pile, though. They grip and cling and slide in salty trails that I taste until the edge of the city.
— Cath Crowley, A Little Wanting Song
Tears filled Claire’s eyes but, as if they knew their place, didn’t leave.
— Amy Waldman, The Submission
Silence and creativity are very close friends!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Some sit and watch the life
—  some sail to the sea and the life watches them!
There are four seasons in a year: Winter, Spring, Summer and Colour!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Man is a tireless traveller wandering in the dark valleys of his past!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Every journey will take us to somewhere even if at the beginning it looks like taking us to nowhere!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
What lies at the end of the life path? The answer is simple: Nothing lies over there! That’s why mankind must change the end of the road!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Do the difficult thing
—  you can then have something that you can be truly proud of!
Gökalp gave "the nation" an important mystical component. In his work, "he transferred to the nation the divine qualities he had found in society, replacing the belief in God with the belief in nation: and so nationalism became a religion." The national is deified, thus expanding Durkheim's idea that "society can do as it pleases." So, if a nation perceives itself in danger, it feels no moral responsibility in its response to that danger. The Unionist "scientific approach" gained a "sacred" character through Gökalp's theories.
— Taner Akçam
Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.
— Hunter S. Thompson
To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
— Michael Jordan
Human tragedies:We all want to be extraordinaryand we all just want to fit in.Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in.
— Sebastyne Young
I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
— Abraham Lincoln
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
— Aristotle
Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)
— Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
— Booker T. Washington
We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.
— Steve Jobs
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.
— Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
There has always been an elegance to the application of excellence.
— Richard Diaz
I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best
— Winston S. Churchill
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence
— Vince Lombardi Jr.
I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?
— Adriana Trigiani, Viola in Reel Life
If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better.
— Lindsay Buckingham
You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting.
— Steve Jobs
I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
To hate excellence is to hate the gods.
— Mary Renault, The Persian Boy
But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.
— Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
To stay vigorous, a company needs to provide a stimulating and challenging environment for all these types: the dreamer, the entrepreneur, the professional manager, and the leader. If it doesn't, it risks becoming yet another mediocre corporation.
— Howard Schultz, Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
Seeking excellence means choosing to forge your own sword to cut through the limitations of your life...
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
when i run i run fastwhen i read time whirls pastwhatever you do todaydo it in the best possible way
— Cassondra
To have a man whose name is on the label showing such interest, commitment, and determination for the best is a wonderful thing. This is someone who will throw money at quality, who believes in being the best. Never knock it. Would you prefer to have a bean counter in corporate headquarters, someone who never comes near the brewery, making decisions solely on the basis of the bottom line and profit margins?
— Charles W. Bamforth, Beer Is Proof God Loves Us: The Craft, Culture, and Ethos of Brewing, Portable Documents
I tried to bunked classes, I skipped lectures, I cheated in exams, I lied to my teachers and some stuff were taken for granted when I was a student before. I am not proud about it. Of course, I learned from that experience. I learned that everyone has a chance to change. It doesn't mean that if I am dumbass before and you call me the same thing now. Because now, I work hard, play the game well and strive for excellence. This is me now, a guy with a strong grit in my heart.
— Nathaniel E. Quimada
People who personify excellence are people who invoke the same in others.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Doing and acting build a culture of excellence
— Kathryn A. LeRoy
My greatest joy is in helping others be their best.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Life is like a road, It has highways and detours
— Frank Puglisi
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
We downplay our excellence when we only depend on miracles.
— Sunday Adelaja
The gospel of the kingdom talks about excellence.
— Sunday Adelaja
One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
— Peter Drucker
Gravity keeps your body down from flying high. On the other hand, nothing can keep you down from outperforming yourself and from continually growing to become excellent.
— Assegid Habtewold
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attidute.
— Ralph Marston
There can be no excellence without insight.
— Paul Bamikole
If performance of duty is part of excellence, then it should give satisfaction and happiness.
— Anuj Bajaj, The Millennium City Hermit
Wisdom clears the mind of delusions thus making it more focused to achieve excellence.
— - Anuj Bajaj, The Millennium City Hermit
Journey to Excellence involve identifying the right things, at the right time, and to act upon them with the right way to achieve desired measurable outcome.
— Bharat Shah
and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).
— Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
A world in which deliberate practice is a normal part of life would be one in which people had more volition and satisfaction.
— Anders Ericsson, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
There is one art, no more, no less, to do all things with artlessness.
— Anonymous
To live a life of excellence, you will have to take risks. You will have to step into new territory and climb new mountains. If you’re up to something that’s as big as you are, it’s going to be scary. If it feels perfectly safe, you are probably underachieving. To leave your mark in the world, you will have to stand someplace you’ve never been willing to stand before. And you will have to have the courage to aspire to excellence.
— Debbie Ford, The Best Year of Your Life: Dream It, Plan It, Live It
for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
— Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates
To live a life of excellence, you will have to take risks. You will have to step into new territory and climb new mountains. If you’re up to something that’s as big as you are, it’s going to be scary. If it feels perfectly safe, you are probably underachieving. To leave your mark in the world, you will have to stand someplace you’ve never been willing to stand before. And you will have to have the courage to aspire to excellence. To create an extraordinary life you will have to be present in each moment and give 100 percent of yourself. You will have to commit each day to being the best you can be, and aspire to perform your daily tasks in the most conscious way possible. Living your best year requires you to take a moment each time you’re about to make a move—whether you are about to deliver a communication, make a decision, or put something into your body—and make sure that move reflects the very highest choice you could make. 
— Debbie Ford, The Best Year of Your Life: Dream It, Plan It, Live It
Excellence doesn't mean we have to be 100% better in any one thing: it means we strive to be 1% better in 100 things.
— Jan Carlzon
He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.
— H.W. Brands
Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.
— David    Allen
Don't wait for a huge platform before you give of your best performance
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Imagine yourself doing what is best for you. Commit yourself to excellence. Transform yourself with dedication to excellence, from daily self-improvement and practice. Enjoy the process.
— Mark F. LaMoure
Something good is a frontier
—  something better is also a frontier and something excellent is just another frontier! You can always go beyond these frontiers! And so what is excellent? Just a frontier!
In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill.
— Jo Walton, The Philosopher Kings
Blossoming out through one's comfort zone should be well meaning so as to achieve newer levels of excellence
— Priyavrat Thareja
If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours.
— Mark Batterson, A Trip Around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life Into the Adventure of a Lifetime
Think of your day as a blank canvas, and everything you say, your art upon it. Then join your loved ones and friends, and create lasting beauty together, worthy of your inner Rembrandt.
— Tom Althouse
If the 'Journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step' - that is prescribed to - ALIGN
— Priyavrat Thareja
The race for excellence has no finish line.
— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, رؤيتي
Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.
— C.S. Lewis
Autograph your life with a signature of excellence.
— Mark LaMoure
Stamp your performance with excellence.
— Sherman Morris
They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence?
— Murad S. Shah
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us.
— Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
There's never been a better time to let the leaves of mediocrity fall from your tree of life.
— David  Ault
People can easily forget how fast you did your work, but can hardly forget how well you did it.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The quality of people's lives is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.
— Vincent Lombardi
Now is the time to enliven, ennoble and enrich your life's tapestry.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.- Aristotle
— Marco G. Casteleijn, Scattered Voices: A Collection of Poems Shared by Strangers on the Internet.
Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details in everything you do and excellence will come.
— Perry Sexton
In any profession, you will be respected if you are good at your job – not because you are good at talking about your beliefs. It may be quite irrational, but the fact is that, if you are recognized as being outstanding on one thing, you will be listened to on all sorts of subjects in no way related to it... and so, if you are going to be really effective [for your cause] in your place of work, you must set out to be the best man at your job.
— Douglas Arnold Hyde, Dedication and Leadership
Leadership is bringing people into new realms of excellence and challenging them to become distinguished in their chosen field.
— Onyi Anyado
Be a reflection of excellence.
— Steve Maraboli
Ordinary is an insult to excellence.
— Jury Nel
Generally places that are comfortable with excellence don’t call themselves centers of excellence. Has anyone heard of a Princeton University Center of Excellence? Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of Excellence?
— Otis Webb Brawley, How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America
Moderation leads to Mediocrity, Intensity leads to Excellence.
— Suleman Abdullah
I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
— Tom Peters
Anytime I see a rainbow, what comes into my mind is how skillful and talented someone was to create an ark that didn't leak through a prolong period of flood. We must work our talents out and work them out skillfully and then our rainbow of excellence will show.
— Israelmore Ayivor
We must be the ones to re-define the world class standards of excellence
— Fela Durotoye
What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Those who distinguish themselves in what they do and become disinct always score distinction. Don't follow the crowd. Distinguish yourself with a special commitment and you will excel.
— Israelmore Ayivor
The truth is the very definition of excellence.
— Loron-Jon Stokes
Either find a way, or make one....You can bend but you can never break if you want to achieve excellence.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
As I tell my children, 'If you are going to do something, do your best while you're doing it.
— Michelle    Moore, Selling Simplified
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
— Steve Jobs
Be driven with purpose. Be relentless in your alignment with excellence. Pay no mind to the disimpassioned impotent haters.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.
— Orison Swett Marden
When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you'll command the attention of the world.
— George Washington Carver
It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous 
— Rex Stout
True sportsmanship is excellence in motion!
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
The excellent person manages himself. He will not allow the environment to manage him.
— Rex Resurreccion, Called To Excel
Most of us are continually engaged in some form of pursuit. We are seeking excellence within one or more areas in our lives, and that is the basis of our motivation. It is human nature to have a need to get ahead, need a little something more—it’s in our DNA. Although we may not be certain of what we need at any given moment, we know there’s something. It’s a competitive itch and desire to improve that never goes away.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
— Os Guinness, Time for Truth: Living Free in a World of Lies, Hype & Spin
Excellence prospers in the absence of excuses.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
When I think of excellence in motion, I think of the big picture. Because of the magnitude of this concept, I look at it from an aerial perspective. It is a mindset that challenges the boundaries of self-induced limits—that point where you aspire to exceed your expectations, where the mind-body-achievement connection resides and wins time and time again.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
As sure as shadow follows substance and the sun rises on the east and sets on the west, a person who exercises professional excellence will be followed by success.
— Rex Resurreccion, Called To Excel
Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.
— Wayde Goodall, Why Great Men Fall: 15 Winning Strategies to Rise Above It All
I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it
— Thomas Jefferson
Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
— Ludwig von Mises
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
— Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.
— Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance
I'm really very self-confident when it comes to my work. When I take on a project, I believe in it 100%. I really put my soul into it. I'd die for it. That's how I am.
— Michael  Jackson
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy
— Robert Half
No one ever drowned in sweat.
— U.S. Marine Corps
She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work.
— Nora Roberts
Barking hard work, being a boy.
— Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan
It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
— Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
He had the kind of real deep tan that rich people spent ages trying to achieve with expensive holidays and bits of tinfoil, when really all you need to do to obtain one is work your arse off in the open air everyday.
— Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
I'm really very self-confident when it comes to my work. When I take on a project, I believe in it 100%. I really put my soul into it. I'd die for it. That's how I am
— Michael  Jackson
Bradley is one of the few basketball players who have ever been appreciatively cheered by a disinterested away-from-home crowd while warming up. This curious event occurred last March, just before Princeton eliminated the Virginia Military Institute, the year's Southern Conference champion, from the NCAA championships. The game was played in Philadelphia and was the last of a tripleheader. The people there were worn out, because most of them were emotionally committed to either Villanova or Temple-two local teams that had just been involved in enervating battles with Providence and Connecticut, respectively, scrambling for a chance at the rest of the country. A group of Princeton players shooting basketballs miscellaneously in preparation for still another game hardly promised to be a high point of the evening, but Bradley, whose routine in the warmup time is a gradual crescendo of activity, is more interesting to watch before a game than most players are in play. In Philadelphia that night, what he did was, for him, anything but unusual. As he does before all games, he began by shooting set shots close to the basket, gradually moving back until he was shooting long sets from 20 feet out, and nearly all of them dropped into the net with an almost mechanical rhythm of accuracy. Then he began a series of expandingly difficult jump shots, and one jumper after another went cleanly through the basket with so few exceptions that the crowd began to murmur. Then he started to perform whirling reverse moves before another cadence of almost steadily accurate jump shots, and the murmur increased. Then he began to sweep hook shots into the air. He moved in a semicircle around the court. First with his right hand, then with his left, he tried seven of these long, graceful shots-the most difficult ones in the orthodoxy of basketball-and ambidextrously made them all. The game had not even begun, but the presumably unimpressible Philadelphians were applauding like an audience at an opera.
— John McPhee, A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
Hard work makes you feel good because you have accomplished something.
— Alcurtis Turner
If basketball was going to enable Bradley to make friends, to prove that a banker's son is as good as the next fellow, to prove that he could do without being the greatest-end-ever at Missouri, to prove that he was not chicken, and to live up to his mother's championship standards, and if he was going to have some moments left over to savor his delight in the game, he obviously needed considerable practice, so he borrowed keys to the gym and set a schedule for himself that he adhereded to for four full years—in the school year, three and a half hours every day after school, nine to five on Saturday, one-thirty to five on Sunday, and, in the summer, about three hours a day.
— John McPhee, A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
The research proves what gamers already know: within the limits of our own endurance, we would rather work hard than be entertained. Perhaps that’s why gamers spend less time watching television than anyone else on the planet.
— Jane McGonigal, Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
With determination and hard work, you will grow to a position capable of advising others.
— Mohith Agadi
There is another apt Latin expression: Materiam superabat opus. (The workmanship is better than the material.) The material we've been given genetically, emotionally, financially, that's where we begin. We don't control that. We do control what we make of that material, and whether we squander it.
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Hard work and dedications may lead a person towards better tomorrow.
— Abid Hussain Library Officer
Someone asked me, what colour were those two years of living in Korea? I thought about it for a long time. There was no colour, I don't know what colour hard work is.
— Yixing Zhang
It’s better to wear out than rust out.
— Rich Harland
Hard work is a necessity of today in order to live a great life tomorrow.
— Paras Soni
There is no substitute for hard work.
— Albert Einstein
Talent is not enough, hard work makes the difference
— Sunday Adelaja
If you work hard, you will be rewarded at the end of the day.
— Sunday Adelaja
Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification.
— Sunday Adelaja
We wanted to be accepted by our fellows, especially the influential natural leaders among us; and the ethos of my peers was – until my last year at Oundle – anti-intellectual. You had to pretend to be working less hard than you actually were. Native ability was respected; hard work was not. It was the same on the sports field. Sportsmen were admired more than scholars in any case. But if you could achieve sporting brilliance without training, so much the better. Why is native ability more admired than hard graft? Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
— Richard Dawkins, An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist
Prosperity comes only through hard work
— Sunday Adelaja
It is hard work that is supposed to be your greatest possession
— Sunday Adelaja
It is only when you work hard that you will be able to come with result
— Sunday Adelaja
Only hard work will make you prosper
— Sunday Adelaja
Work hard and don’t manipulate God
— Sunday Adelaja
The only thing that could cleanse our society is when our messages is focused on diligence, hard work and been faithful in little
— Sunday Adelaja
We are to build ourselves up, get to know God's will, build systems,structures, work hard towards His will and stop expecting miracles.
— Sunday Adelaja
The gospel of the kingdom is about hard work.
— Sunday Adelaja
Neither gold nor diamonds mine themselves.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
The decision you will take today has the power to redefine your past and redesign your future.
— Mayank S. Sengar, Life and The Grey Notes
I never saw a lad, page or prince, so eager to learn to do a thing right.
— Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted
Years later, that image of my father -slumped on the family couch, his leg in a cast, unable to work or earn money, and ground down by the world-is still burned into my mind.Looking back now, I have a lot of respect for my dad.He never finished high school, but he was an honest man who worked hard.
— Howard Schultz, Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
I was not born with a gold or silver spoon in my mouth. If i'm here today looking all successful and standing proudly, its because of the recipe i concocted throughout my life. The ingredient?No big secret; hard-work, dedication,sacrifices, knowledge of my teachers and blessing of my parents. Yes, my friend i'm a self made man.
— moolesh.k.dindoyal
I contemplate the bones for a while then turn away. I have work to do. Next year I will have an odako that is bigger, grander, more beautiful than anyone has ever seen. Next year.
— Stan Sakai
I work hard, and I do good, and I’m going to enjoy myself. I’m not going to let you restrict me.
— Usain Bolt
This is what I like," said Jesse. "Everything seems better when we have to work to get it.
— Gertrude Chandler Warner, Surprise Island
Conservatism -- hard work -- saving one's money -- looking neat and gentlemanly. It was such an Eveless paradise, that.
— Theodore Dreiser
A little hard work, never hurt anyone.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint. God favors those who toil while others play.
— Sarah Price, Sense and Sensibility: An Amish Retelling of Jane Austen's Classic
Talent alone can't give you a gold medal.There is practise,there is hard work and there is a will to succeed.
— Keith Peters
University, he said quietly. It sounded like a dream; it tasted like damnation.
— Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court
There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equals as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that's that. I am not talented. I am obsessed.
— Conor McGregor, Notorious
Entitlement is simply the belief that you deserve something. Which is great. The hard part is, you'd better make sure you deserve it. So, how did I make sure that I deserved it?To answer that, I would like to quote from the Twitter bio of one of my favorite people, Kevin Hart. It reads:My name is Kevin Hart and I WORK HARD!!! That pretty much sums me up!!! Everybody Wants To Be Famous But Nobody Wants To Do The Work!
— Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?
Only an atmosphere of quiet hard work and dull, serious conversation were appropriate to him.
— Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement
Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work. Happiness is not an exception.
— Dennis Prager, Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
Eventually, what you're looking for is gonna happen, and by the time it does happen, you'll be that much better along the way to what you should be. Don't get discouraged, and just keep on plugging along, and what you want will eventually be yours. You know, there's nothing to stop it if you just keep on working hard. And by working hard, I mean doing the best job you possibly can. Everything happens for the best, and I believe it completely.
— Bob  Crane
Smart work is also important but it is not replacement for hard work
— Prabakaran Thirumalai
Nothing remarkable or impressive comes to be overnight, and all those so-called "overnight success" stories misrepresent the truth. It is only the manifestation of that success that appeared overnight, but its essence was built up over time.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
Work and you’ll get what you need, work harder and you’ll get what you want.
— Prabakaran Thirumalai
Had she been a more instinctive, "natural" cook, she might have felt less compelled to parse each recipe, to tackle each one as though getting it right were a matter of life and death.
— Karen Karbo, Julia Child Rules: Lessons on Savoring Life
Interestingly, people often boast that they are hard workers not understanding that hardworking means spending a lot of time and energy on work.
— Eraldo Banovac
Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
— Paul Coffey
We must bring back dignity to hard work.
— Sunday Adelaja
.....I don't think infinity is a limit.
— Farooq A. Shiekh
There is no gain without an effort, some gain with lots of effort and wonderful gain with smart effort.
— Mussadiq Abdul Rahim
What if all your hard work never pays off? What if I am the outsider to my friends and family? What then? What if all the good you’ve done has been transformed into evil and greed? What if those you help the most, stabbed you in the back? What then? Should I trust again?What if life is unfair, painful and cruel? What if Death invites you to join its tribe? What if death makes you feel at peace and alive! What then? Should I take death’s hand and walk away? What then?
— Quetzal
Success doesn't just happen. It is a product of hard work, grit and ingenuity.
— Ogwo David Emenike
Good manners is the fabric that holds the community together.
— David Esabwa
You could buy a suckling pig with it, if you want to. You could raise it, and it would raise a litter of pigs, worth four, five dollars apiece. Or you can trade that half-dollar for lemonade, and drink it up. You do as you want, it's your money.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Preparation to success is hard work of daily practice with improvement.
— Millie DeWitt
It's not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.
— Ben Carson
Daily hard work leads to regular increase in different aspect of our lives
— Sunday Adelaja
The world of your dreams requires you to wake up and make it real
— Shefali Batra
You don't ask for all that you get. You don't get all that you ask for. That doesn't mean you don't work the hardest for what you want the most.
— Shefali Batra
You don't become the best if you aren't willing to stick your hand in the fire.
— Rachel E. Carter, First Year
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.
— Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
God chooses only hard working people for His works.
— Sunday Adelaja
Work is of utmost importance in a person’s life and not only as a means of meeting one’s needs at various levels of Maslow’s pyramid. Believe me, I speak from experience when I say that good, focused hard work is also one of the most effective remedies for depression.
— Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers
Critical thinking helps us to more clearly understand situations, patients, colleagues, and our agendas, negative emotions, attitudes, motivations, talents, and growing edges. This not only helps us to have a greater grasp of reality but also stops the drain of psychological energy that is necessary to be defensive or to protect our image. Because critical thinking is not natural, although we may think it is for us, it takes discipline, a willingness to face the unpleasant, and a stamina that allows one not to become unduly frustrated when we do not achieve results as quickly as we prefer with respect to our insights and growth.
— Robert J. Wicks, Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice: A Guide to Professional Resilience and Personal Well-Being
Work hard, keep your nose clean, and just stick around.
— Clint Eastwood
But I've learned now that your hard work and dedication will pay off, if you dare to be different. Because why would I want to be anything other than myself?
— Kristyn Van Cleave
A hard practicing period yields a lifelong victory
— Alperen Gülveren
Hard work make us strong and behaviour makes us unique.
— Kishore Bansal
No matter how good you are to people, you will always have barriers and enemies on your way to success
— Auliq Ice
it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end
— Matthew Quick, Boy21
Hard work make us strong behaviour and intentions makes us unique.
— Kishore Bansal
My drop of sweat is the only way I could ever float.
— Noor Sliman
Dreams are all very well but are not known to pay the mortgage.
— Auliq Ice
Let no body lie you that there is a future other than a moment you are able to walk and talk.
— Auliq Ice
The greatest profit, is to make your own gain.
— Auliq Ice
Knowledge alone is not enough, but with hard work it's worth progression.
— Unarine Ramaru
Maybe the best things are those that take the most work, you know? Maybe how you get somewhere can be at least as important as where you're going.
— Ryan North, Adventure Time Vol. 3
Good fortune and talent are both ingredients of success, but like any recipe, they can be substituted with clever alternatives. The one irreplaceable ingredient I've found, however, is work.
— Shane Snow, Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
If you want to find your greatest love, it will be inside the hardest thing you do.That's where it will be
— Regina Dugan
1125Wanna become a Billionaire...?Try to become a 'Thrillonare' first
— Nitin Yadav
It's not about the games it's about practice and when you practice, go hard!!
— Alcurtis Turner
Getting money is easy but do you have the education that will help maintain it?
— Unarine Ramaru
Working smart is harder than working hard. It’s just less visible, and we care too much about what others see.
— Shane Snow
Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.
— Elfriede Jelinek, Greed
Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do the hard work for you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
— Teddy Roosevelt
I work as hard as possible and try to fail gracefully. :-)
— Plex Team
Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrafices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to get there
— Noel DeJesus
People are naturally hardworking but will stop working hard at anything if they learn from experience that their effort makes no difference.
— Deborah Stone, Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making
The beauty that is in the results of your hard work, is not worth any compromise or delay
— Unarine Ramaru
No matter how much fame you get, no matter how much money you make, no matter how much admiration you get, nothing feels as monumental as when someone tells you that something you did changed their outlook on life.
— Zack W. Van
So often we look for a magic secret or new technique that will produce tremendous returns and results with little or no work. Those seeking this magic secret will never find it—for the secret to success is to continually live and apply basic, simple fundamentals over a long period of time.
— Cameron C. Taylor, 8 Attributes of Great Achievers Volume 2
I'd gladly stop working if someone can prove that stupid chatter will maake my day.
— Aakanksha Kesarwani
Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.
— Karen Essex, Stealing Athena
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
— Joan Miró
Coal that bears that pressure meets a diamond.
— Shumila Shah
Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with priviledge and position.
— Toyotomi Hideyoshi
If talent without hard work was a dead-end street,talent with hard work could only be a highway.
— Marko S.
Labor is a man crowning glory.""Not this man's.""I quote Marx"I raised my hands. The pickaxe handle had been rough."I quote blisters.
— John Fowles, The Magus
Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position.
— Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Work hard to play harder.
— Linda Rawson
Always fare well to delay your farewell .
— AarEss
Prayer does work sometimes, but hard work always works.
— Winnie Fernando
In the end, the greatest victory we can know is the result of all of our hard work, discipline, and dedication: the realization of our dreams.
— Cheryl Burke, Dancing Lessons: How I Found Passion and Potential on the Dance Floor and in Life
It's always easier to take something than work for it...
— Alexandra Bracken, In Time
The idea that any art is achieved 'intuitively' is a dehumanization of the brains, effort, and the traditions of the artist, and a classification of said artist as subhuman. It is those supposed incapable of intelligence, training, or connection with a tradition who are described as working by instinct or intuition.
— Joanna Russ, How to Suppress Women's Writing
Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he'll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap.
— Alex and Brett Harris
We live in a microwave life where people want success without passing through the process of hard work. This is because our daily discussions focus on successes and not our struggles, which end up sending wrong message to other people, believing that success can be achieved without hard work.
— Uzoma Nnadi
You cannot have your news instantly and have it done well. You cannot have your news reduced to 140 characters or less without losing large parts of it. You cannot manipulate the news but not expect it to be manipulated against you. You cannot have your news for free; you can only obscure the costs. If as a culture we can learn this lesson, and if we can learn to love the hard work, we will save ourselves much trouble and collateral damage. We must remember: There is no easy way.
— Ryan Holiday, Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
You may not be the person with high IQ, but you can be the person with highest hard work.
— Amit Kalantri
It's a complex song, and it's fascinating to watch the creative process as they went back and forth and finally created it over a few months. Lennon was always my favorite Beatle. [ He laughs as Lennon stops during the first take and makes the band go back and revise a chord.] Did you hear that little detour they took? It didn't work, so they went back and started from where they were. It's so raw in this version. It actually makes the sound like mere mortals. You could actually imagine other people doing this, up to this version. Maybe not writing and conceiving it, but certainly playing it. Yet they just didn't stop. They were such perfectionists they kept it going This made a big impression on me when I was in my thirties. You could just tell how much they worked at this.  They did a bundle of work between each of these recording. They kept sending it back to make it closer to perfect.[ As he listens to the third take, he points out how instrumentation has gotten more complex.] The way we build stuff at Apple is often this way. Even the number of models we'd make of a new notebook or iPod. We would start off with a version and then begin refining and refining, doing detailed models of the design, or the buttons, or how a function operates. It's a lot of work, but in the end it just gets better, and soon it's like, " Wow, how did they do that?!? Where are the screws?
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Early to bed and early to work might get you a success, but late to bed and early to work will get you a glory.
— Amit Kalantri
Today is hard but who cares, by each hard day we are making stair for us.
— Avinash Prasad
There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.
— Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
This should have been a red flag, I realize in retrospect. Working really hard on anything is, by definition, not cool.
— Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life
When you are pursuing your dreams, they will call you CRAZY because they are LAZY. They never know you are a HERO who just jumped away from step ZERO. Stay away from negative people; they will only pollute you.
— Israelmore Ayivor
I want the peace in knowing that is wasn’t for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing in my control was under control.
— Jon Acuff, Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job
As I see it, if you work more hours than somebody else, during those hours you learn more about your craft. That can make you more efficient, more able, even happier. Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster.
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
I believe in success.No matter how much the hard work sucks, the triumph is just like good sex!
— Himmilicious
Some people dream of SUCCESS while other wake up and work hard at it.
— Barbara Rubel
Be Patient to become a Patent
— Zeeshan Ahmed
Love what you do, do it with passion, work hard, and never give up. Money and happiness will come to you.
— Joseph C. Kunz Jr.
Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Only cooked time tastes well
— Zeeshan Ahmed
Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few." -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things.
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley, Small and Simple Things
If you don't burn out at the end of each day, you're a bum.
— George Lois
Everything yields to diligence
— Thomas Jefferson
Hard work is much more important than talent
— Carlo Rotella
Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you GET for it, but what you BECOME for it.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.
— Idries Shah, Reflections
There is an open circle.” This mantra is what my high school coaches would say to me during wrestling practice when they knew that I was physically exhausted and was about to rest for a moment. There was an open circle on the wrestling mat, and if I was interested I could get out there and do more.“There is an open circle.” Meaning there is still more that you could do. Don’t rest now; this is where the difference is made. To work when you are mentally and physically exhausted gets you to the next level.“There is an open circle.
— JohnA Passaro
Easy and difficult things are juat small parts of life, the rest are what have to be done.
— Alief Moulana
Talent is what God gives us, Skill is what we give back to Him
— Eliel Pierre
Many say "What goes up must come down." I believe this was spoken by a pessimist. I believe it is vitally important to remember that "What goes up...must have started some place." #workhard
— Dr. Jayce O'Neal
What you really believe about the source of great performance thus becomes the foundation of all you will ever achieve
— Geoff Colvin, Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
As my friend, you should either bring me along, or keep me company.""Friend?" he asked.She blushed. "Well, 'scowling escort' is a better description. Or 'reluctant acquaintance', if you prefer.
— Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
— Oscar Wilde
friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
— Gautama Buddha
She's married. I'm more a friend and occasional lover.
— Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.
— E.M. Forster, Maurice