You're not in competition with anyone but yourself. Outdo your past, not other people.

Work ethic is important, because, unlike intelligence, athleticism, or charisma, or any natural attribute, it’s a choice.

Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come.

99% of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Tomorrow is worth more than yesterday but less than today.

The greatest glory in loving lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Try and do one thing each day that you would really rather not do.

Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal.  It is the courage to continue that counts.

Work on your weaknesses until they are your strengths and work on your strengths until they are second nature.

Don’t practice until you get it right, practice until you can’t get it wrong.

The temptation to quit will be the greatest when you are about to succeed

Hard work always pays off - it is not a question of if you will get there, but WHEN you will get there

We learn more from failure than we do from success.