If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.

Michelangelo

Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it. Start doing it.

Jocko Willink

The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.

Azim Premji

In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life.

T. C. Boyle

No pressure, no diamonds. No pressure, no pearl. No pain, no gain. No cocoon, no beautiful butterfly. It's in the uncertain and dark and unclear and broken times that we learn who we really are and what we are capable of.

Kemmy Nola

Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready.

Nipsey Hussle