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“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.”

“Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.”

“Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”

“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.”

“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.”

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”

“If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”

“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.”

“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

“Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.”

“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.”

“Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.”

“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”

“Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.”

“If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.”

“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.”

“I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.”

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”