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    “The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” ~ Vince Lombardi

      “Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most important, you must pay the price to stay there.” ~ Vince Lombardi

        ...Easy? Who said anything about easy...?

          “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

            No Excuses.

              “Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” ~ Sam Ewing

                “The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things.” ~ Mike Dooley

                  "Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration." ~ Thomas Edison

                  “Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.” ~ Thomas Edison

                    If you work really hard and are kind, amazing things will happen.

                      “I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” ~ Larry Bird

                        “I’m not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.” ~ Michael Jordan

                          “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” ~ David Bly

                            “Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.” ~ Herodotus

                              “The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You’ve got to keep on working that talent. Someday I’ll reach for it and it won’t be there.” ~ Irving Berlin

                                “That’s what building a body of work is all about. It’s about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It’s about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it’s never finished. It’s cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you’re not done. You haven’t even started.” ~ Barack Obama

                                  “Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.” ~ Anne Frank

                                    “It always came back to my original belief of having passion. You can’t just generate passion; you’ve really got to have it from the beginning. You need to believe in yourself and in your projects. Very early in your career you need to shoot things that you believe in, things that you really want to shoot [photography]. You need to take risks. Don’t wait for the phone to ring. Success is only going to happen if you are out there really working to make it happen.” ~ Eric Meola

                                      “The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.” ~ Edward Gibbon

                                        “Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.” ~ Malcolm Gladwell