#15 motivational quotes for working hard

1- "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone." Bill Cosby

2- "Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending." Carl Bard

3- "I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing." Martha Stewart

4- "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."Mark Twain

5- "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." Mark Caine

6- "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain

7- "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." Bruce Lee

8- "Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy." Jimmy Spithill

9- "Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down." Charles F. Kettering

10- "If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it--teach yourself to be impatient." Gurbaksh Chahal

11- "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." Steve Jobs

12- "If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!" T. Harv Eker

13- "Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better." Jim Rohn

14- "The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors." Napoleon Hill

15- "In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it." Jane Smiley

16- "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." George Bernard Shaw

17- "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." Diane Ackerman

18- "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." Jim Ryun

19- "Our greatest fear should not be of failure ... but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter." Francis Chan

20- "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." Jim Rohn

21- "Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don't have a plan." Larry Winget

22- "To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like." Mike Gafka

23- "Be content to act, and leave the talking to others." Baltasar

24- "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." Margaret Thatcher

25- "Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment." Stephen Covey

26- "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." G. K. Chesterton

27- "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas A. Edison

28- "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." Robert Hughes

29- "What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?" Robert Schuller

30- "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing." Abraham Lincoln

31- "Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential." John Maxwell

32- "Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success." Thomas J. Watson

33- "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Albert Einstein

34- "Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen." Dax Shepard

35- "My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'" George Carlin