“Doing was always my best strategy. I built my vision through taking action. One day at a time. The hard work, the hustle and the grind.”— Gary Vaynerchuk, garyvaynerchuk.com
“When we see someone with well developed abs, we don't say, oh sure, he was born that way. Instead, we realize that a lot of effort went into it. The same thing ought to be true for people who understand science, or make good decisions, or are capable of emotional labor.”— Seth Godin, sethgodin.typepad.com
“I applied for the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Sweden twice. I got to the last round for two years and did not get in. It feels like you're on Idol or something, to have to go in and perform those auditions. That's why I applied to law school, because I thought that was maybe my only way forward, esp…”— Alicia Vikander, interviewmagazine.com
“I was an overnight success all right, but thirty years is a long, long night.”— Ray Kroc, amazon.com
“Let's try and answer that question: Am I talented enough? And really, it's a flawed questions, it's faulty. If not faulty, it's at least an unfinished question. My question to that question is, for what? Am I talented, for what?”— Jake Parker, youtube.com
“Fluid talent is what you're born with, all right? Channeled talent is what you've learned, what you've come to understand and gain.”— Jake Parker, youtube.com
“As fas as I can tell, this is the main trick to getting good at stuff: the ultimate first step is to just realise that skill and talent are not innate; that all of this things come from hard work and that they are composed of a multitude of different things like self-control, and empathy, and like,…”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“You don’t just wake up one day and find that everything has worked itself out. You must get out of bed, morning after morning, and make a conscious effort to control the circumstances of that given day.”— Jordan, ohthebrave.tumblr.com
“It will always take hard work, whether it’s the second time around or not.”— Paola Angeline, readunwritten.com
“If you like someone, you should have to make an effort. You should have to get to know the person -- you should have to work for that first kiss.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away and assume that means we're going in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. If anything, when the…”— Rachel Van Dyken, amazon.com
“You can quit if you want. If you hate it. If it isn't fun anymore. But you can't quit just because it's hard. Things are hard for most people. Life is hard.”— Catherine McKenzie, amazon.com
“I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.”— Louis Sachar, amazon.com
“They say Icarus was a fool for flying too close to the sun. I say it's only because of him we know how close we can get. I love the fall of those brave enough to fail for the right reasons. Fuck the easy glory of mere excellence. The only legacy I will accept is to know that however far I got — it w…”— Jared Singer & Anthony Ragle, youtube.com
“Work hard. Success won’t just knock on your door, you need to lure it and give it reasons why it should knock in the first place.”— E.J. Cenita, thoughtcatalog.com
“I can do anything I put my mind to. I once figured out Alyssa Milano’s phone number just by randomly choosing numbers.”— Elizabeth Meriwether, Schmidt, Max Greenfield, imdb.com
“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”— Emily Brontë, amazon.com