“Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.”

“No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down. ”

“Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble.”

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”

“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.”

“Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.”

“Do not confuse dreams with wishes. There is a difference. Dreams are where you visualize yourself being successful at what's important to you to accomplish. Now, dreams build convictions because you work hard to pay the price to make sure that they come true. Wishes are are hoping good things will happen to you, but there's no fire in your gut that causes you to put everything forth to overcome all the obstacles. So you have to dream more and never, ever, ever blame somebody else if it doesn't happen. That is in your department.”

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”