Courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog
“There is no easy way. There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.”
– Jocko Willink
“Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.”
Henry Ford
“Most people give up when they are about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from the winning touchdown.”
Ross Perot
“Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.”
Richard Branson
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
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Thomas A. Edison
“We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.”
William James
“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
“Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.”
Malcolm Forbes
“It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“I am just an average man, but by God I work harder than the average man.”
Winston Churchill
“The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.”
Andrew Carnegie
“Hustle until your haters ask if you’re hiring.”
Unknown
