HIGHLIGHT: Lots of great quotes.
"A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills."
"Although we cannot do everything at once, we can do something at once."
"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." -- Og Mandino
"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment." -- Robert Benchley
"Anything in life worth having is worth working for." -- Andrew Carnegie
"Before I get in the ring, I'd have already won or lost it out on the road. The real part is won or lost somewhere far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road before I dance under those lights." -- Muhammad Ali
"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out." -- Italian Proverb
"Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished." -- Luisa Sigea
"Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points." -- Knute Rockne
"By failing to prepare, you prepare to fail."
"By perseverance, the snail reached the ark." -- Charles Spurgeon
"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." -- Muhammad Ali
"Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice." -- Henry Ford
"Consider the postage stamp; it's usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there." -- Josh Billings
"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work." -- H.L. Hunt
"Diamonds are just little chunks of coal that stuck to their job." -- 'The Old Farmer's Almanac'.
"Do or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda
"Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire." -- Arab Proverb
"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself." -- Samuel Butler
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
"Faith makes things possible, not easy."
"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service." -- John Burroughs
"Forget yourself and start to work." -- Gordon B. Hinckley
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." -- Thomas Edison
"Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard."
"Hard work can be fun."
"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense." -- Thomas Bennett
"He who stops being better stops being good." -- Oliver Cromwell
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." -- Thomas Jefferson
"I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do." -- Harry S Truman
"I have nothing to offer but toil, sweat, tears, and blood." -- Winston Churchill
"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won't." -- Bruce Jenner
"I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it." -- William Hazlitt
"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." -- Jerome K. Jerome
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." -- Helen Keller
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work." -- Thomas Edison
"I played as hard as I could...That's all I want to be remembered for." -- Larry Bird
"I will get ready and then, perhaps, my chance will come."
"I will prepare, and someday my chance will come." -- Abraham Lincoln
"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company." -- Jeremy Collier
"If I do not practice one day, I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it. If I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it." -- Ignace Paderewski
"If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all." -- Michelangelo
"If you put in the work, the results will come."
"If you wear out the seat of your pants before your shoes, perhaps you are working the wrong end."
"It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired -- you quit when the gorilla is tired."
"It's not how many hours you put in but how much you put into the hours."
"It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted." -- Catherine O'Hara
"It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer." -- Albert Einstein
"It's one thing to say you're going to do it. It's another thing to go out and do it."
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't, everyone could do it. It's the hard that makes it great." -- "A League of Their Own"
"It is better to wear out than to rust out." -- Bishop Richard Cumberland
"It is counter-productive to put your best foot forward while dragging the other."
"It takes no talent to hustle." -- Hans Schmidt
"Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal." -- Elbert Hubbard
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." -- Goethe
"Lack of confidence is born from a lack of preparation." -- Shannon Wilburn
"Let him that would move the world, first move himself." -- Socrates
"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it." -- Margaret Thatcher
"Look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before." -- Jacob A. Riis
"Lord, give me the determination and tenacity of a weed."
"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.'" -- Dan Parker
"Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes."
"Never be satisfied or content. Always want more and you'll compete more."
"No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind." -- Napoleon Hill
"Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done." -- Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
"Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work." -- Booker T. Washington
"Nothing will work unless you do." -- John Wooden
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas Edison
"Our days are identical suitcases -- all the same size -- but some people can pack more into them than others."
"People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it." -- Howard Newton
"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work." -- Peter Drucker
"Practice without improvement is meaningless." -- Chuck Knox
"Push yourself again and again...don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds." -- Larry Bird
"Quit the CRYING and WHINING, and start the GRITTIN' and GRINDING!"
"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Some dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them."
"Sometimes our best is simply not enough. We have to do what is required." -- Sir Winston Churchill
"Strivers achieve what dreamers believe." -- Usher
"Talk about what one is going to do means little; doing it means all."
"Temporary Inconvenience -- Permanent Improvement." -- sign at road construction site
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The amount of confidence you have is directly proportional to how hard you work."
"The choicest laurel wreaths are the hardest won."
"The harder I practice, the luckier I get." -- Gary Player
"The man on top of the mountain did not fall there."
"The man who moved a mountain was the one who began carrying away small stones." -- Chinese Proverb
"The mark of a Champion, in any endeavor, is their pride in preparing for their competition. For the businessman, as well as the athlete, it's reading the right books, listening to the right tapes/CDs, attending the right seminars and choosing the right mentors and coaches. Champions are built, not born. There is no off season for someone on the road to being a champion. There is only preparation and competition." -- Greg Werner
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." -- Vidal Sassoon
"The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure."
"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work." -- Robert Frost
"The secret is this: strength lies solely in tenacity." -- Louis Pasteur
"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results." -- Napoleon Hill
"The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense." -- Thomas Edison
"The way to get to the top is to get off your bottom."
"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare."
"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others willing to let them." -- Robert Frost
"There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen." -- Wayne Dyer
"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there." -- Indira Gandhi
"There is one thing I can control. I will never be outworked."
"Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there." -- Marcus Washling
"Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender."
"To do nothing is the way to be nothing." -- Nathaniel Howe
"Understand the difference between being at work and working."
"Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top." -- J.C. Penney
"Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without."
"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny, but what we put into it is ours." -- Dag Hammarskiold
"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents." -- Eric Hoffer
"Well begun is half done." -- Aristotle
"What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort." -- Orison Swett Marden
"What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence." -- Samuel Johnson
"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
"When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool."
"When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen." -- Arland Gilbert
"When you're not practicing, remember, someone, somewhere, is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win." -- Ed Macauley
"When you're through improving, you're through."
"Whenever I think I can't do something, I'm usually right. Whenever I think I can do something, I'm usually right again. Whenever I put 50 percent effort into a task, I'm usually 50 percent satisfied with the results." -- David Rich
"Work hard to make things easier." -- Pete Carill
"Work harder than the opposition."
"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you." -- Henri F. Amiel
"You may have good luck or you may have bad luck: but remember, you make your own luck."
"You must have confidence in your ability to perform the act required. This comes from practice." -- Tony Alfonso
“The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching” -- Anson Dorrance
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