“I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
“The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren’t, is the willingness to work very very hard.” ~ Helen Gurley Brown
“People who never do anything more than they get paid for never get paid for any more than they do.” ~ Albert Hubbard
“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” ~ David Bly
“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.” ~ Walter Cronkite
“It’s usually the last ounce of effort that tips the scales of success.” ~ Rick Beneteau
“Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.” ~ Mary Lou Retton
“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.” ~ Alan Schoenfeld
“If a man works hard, the land will not be lazy.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“Success isn’t something you chase. It’s something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it’ll come when you least expect it.” ~ Michael Jordan
“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” ~ Michelangelo
“When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological proccesses are activated.” ~ Anders Ericsson
“I have always believed that if you want to achieve anything special in life you have to work, work, and then work some more.” ~ David Beckham
“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.” ~ Muhammad Ali
“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
“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.” ~ John Wooden
“I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
“Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiseling and scraping and polishing.” ~ B.C. Forbes
“Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study.” ~ Stephen King
“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.” ~ Helen Keller
