“If you work hard enough, you’ll experience the happy accidents that are the art.”— Ryan McGinley, ryanmcginley.com
“Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. And, when you stumble, keep faith. And, when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on.”— Hillary Clinton, nytimes.com
“You’ll be jealous of everyone who’s more successful than you. That’s okay. Just transfer that jealousy into something productive, like working really hard so you can one day eclipse them and make them feel jealous of YOU.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes.’ They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.'”— Clare Boothe Luce, thoughtcatalog.com
“Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”— Dan Gable, keepinspiring.me
“The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.”— Wayne Gretzky, keepinspiring.me
“Hey, whatever happened to waitin' your turn Doing it all by hand, 'Cause when everything is handed to you It's only worth as much as the time put in It all just seemed so good the way we had it Back before everything became automatic”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail. If you can't (or won't) sort mail, where is the proof that you can do anything?”— Randy Pausch, amazon.com
“Writing is hard....Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com