“If it were easy, everybody would do it. Hard is what makes it great.”— Tom Hanks, brainyquote.comTagged: inspiration, motivation, Hard Work, Work, Change
“The honest to god truth? In the year prior to becoming a full-time producer and writer, I wrote over 350 pieces for various publications. I worked to get where I am today. It wasn’t just lucky. It was work. But I’d do it all over again.”— Kendra Syrdal, kendrasyrdal.tumblr.comTagged: Writing on the internet, Writing, feminism, Career, How to be a writer
“My father believed he had an obligation to his tenants. His motto was simple: You do your job, you keep your job. Do it well, you get a better job. That always made sense to me.”— Donald Trump, amazon.comTagged: Family, Values, Work, The American Dream, Career
“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Hard Work, Passion, Patience, Career
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”— H. Jackson Brown Jr., amazon.comTagged: Dreams, Goals, Motivational
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Dreams, Motivational, Failure, Fear
“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Dreams, Motivational, Success
“It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Success, Dreams, Hard Work
“Saying that the point of business is to produce profit is like saying that the whole point of playing basketball is to make as many baskets as possible. One could make many more baskets by having no opponent. The game and styles of playing the game are what matter because they produce identities peo…”— Hubert Dreyfus, amazon.comTagged: Business, Outcomes, Journey Not Destination
“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.”— William James, attitudeofgratitude-nsrichford.blogspot.co.idTagged: inspiration, motivation, Challenges, Overcoming Obstacles
“We only have one life. If we live an awful lot of it not doing something that would make us very happy, hurts no one and might actually be worth something in the general scheme of things, it’s pretty sad if we don’t do it, just because we might get our heads kicked in.”— Frieda Hughes, theguardian.comTagged: Passion, Life, Art, Just Do It, Happiness
“You will always be okay! Money and material things come to you when you dare to trust in life’s ability to take you exactly where you need to go. When we live in fear we create tense vibrations that keep the things we long for at a distance. Worrying is praying for what we don’t want to happen. Focu…”— Rachel Brathen, amazon.comTagged: Life, Focus, Appreciation, Trust, Create
“Women are never so strong as after their defeat.”— Alexandre Dumas, amazon.comTagged: Dreams, Failure, Success
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”— Dale Carnegie, pickthebrain.comTagged: Human Nature, Grass I Always Greener, Life, Life Experience, Living Your Life
“No one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Desire, Life, Joy, strength, Optimism
“The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or no…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Life, Journey, purpose, Faith, Hope
“I know I'm not going to be able to change the world, but I think it's important to try to make a difference.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Change, Life, Making A Difference, Influential, Self-improvement
“When you do what you love, the seemingly impossible becomes simply challenging”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.comTagged: Challenges, Life, Dreams, Career
“Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.”— Alex Rogers, amazon.comTagged: Success, Dreams, Motivational
“Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”— L.M. Montgomery, amazon.comTagged: Dreams, Motivational