“If you think success is predetermined by talent, it becomes a product of something you can’t change. But if you look at it as a product of hard work, then it’s up to you to control the outcome.”— Anders Weiss, time.com
“But you don’t get the girl until you’ve gotten the girl. And even then you have to put in the effort every single day to keep her. You don’t win before you’ve won. You keep playing, and fighting for love every day.”— Lauren Blakely, amazon.com
“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Work hard, know your shit, show your shit, and then feel entitled. Listen to no one except the two smartest and kindest adults you know, and that doesn't always mean your parents. If you do that, you will be fine.”— Mindy Kaling, amazon.com
“Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.”— Tina Fey, amazon.com
“I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.”— Craig Ferguson, amazon.com
“If you don't take the time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com
“Every failure I have considered my own, but every success has been shared.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com
“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Work is finding yourself alone at the track when the weather kept everyone else indoors. Work is pushing through the pain and crappy first drafts and prototypes. It is ignoring whatever plaudits others are getting, and more importantly, ignoring whatever plaudits you may be getting. Because there is…”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“I don’t feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I’m an adult. I’m grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That’s why I’ve worked hard.”— Beyoncé, marieclaire.co.uk
“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”— Alexandre Dumas, amazon.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
“If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.”— Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis, Marty McFly, Michael J. Fox, imdb.com
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.com
“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.com
“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.com
“You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”— Jim Carrey, buzzfeed.com
“If every day you are not paying the price to make your dreams come true, then your everyday is a price that you are paying to stop your dreams coming true.”— Moffat Machingura, amazon.com