1. When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor – Elon Musk
2. Some people want it to happen, some wish it to happen, others make it happen – Michael Jordan
3. Whether you’re 9 or 90, stop trying to fix things you’re bad at, and focus on the things you’re good at – Gary Vaynerchuk
4. The more you see yourself as what you’d like to become, and act as if what you want is already there, the more you’ll activate those dormant forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into reality – Wayne Dyer
5. The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before – Steve Young
6. You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that – LeBron James
7. The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give into peer pressure to be something you’re not – Ellen Degeneres
8. Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown – Ross Perot
9. It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up – Babe Ruth
10. There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – Derek Jeter
11. If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all? Joe Namath
12. Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind – Jackie Joyner-Kersee
13. If you can’t outplay them, outwork them – Ben Hogan
14. Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period. Lou Holtz
15. Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers – Magic Johnson
16. Self-confidence is the first step toward success. If you believe it, you can achieve it – Tommy Lasorda
17. I hated every minute of training, but I said, don’t quit, suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion – Muhammad Ali
18. Always deliver more than expected – Larry Page
19. If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out — Mark Zuckerberg
20. The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something -Seth Godin
21. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense – Thomas A. Edison
22. Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life – Helen Exley
23. All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work – Calvin Coolidge
24. Someday is not a day of the week – Denise Brennan-Nelson
25. The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty – Alex Spanos
26. If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude – Charles R. Swindoll
27. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. — Maya Angelou
28. You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. — George Lorimer
29. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory ― Mohandas Gandhi
30. Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan – Margaret Thatcher
31. Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor – Brian Tracy
32. I’ve always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got – Alan Bond
33. All wealth is the product of labor –John Locke
34. Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work – Peter Drucker
35. Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind – Henry Ford
36. Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it – Napoleon Hill
37. No one has ever drowned in his own sweat – Ann Landers
38. Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. Joyce Brothers
39. What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan – Jason Fried
40. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. Bruce Lee
41. I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end – Larry Bird
42. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra – Jimmy Johnson
43. The thickest sweats produce the sweetest life – Isrealmore Ayivor
44. Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better – Jim Rohn
45. Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking – William B. Sprague
46. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work – Thomas Edison
47. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere – Albert Einstein
48. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings – Salvador Dali
49. Learning never exhausts the mind – Leonardo Da Vinci
50. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else – Booker T. Washington
51. The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics – Paul Halmos
52. Be a student as long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life – Henry L. Doherty
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