“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” -Dale Carnegie
“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.” -John Newton
“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.” -Barrack Obama
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” -Harry Golden
“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” -Maya Angelou
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” -Helen Keller
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.” -Bertrand Russell
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” -C.S. Lewis
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.” -Joan Collins
“As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame, but for learning.” -Margaret Heffernan
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” -Denis Waitley
“The best way out is always through.” -Robert Frost
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” -M. Scott Peck
“It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.” -Colin Powell
“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” -Peter Marshall
“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.” -Hermann Hesse
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” -Richard Branson
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” -Truman Capote
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” -Dale Carnegie
“You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.” -Mahatma Gandhi
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe
”Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.” -Brian Tracy
“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” -Peter Drucker
“Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.” -Brian Tracy
“There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.” -Roger Staubach
“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” -Muhammad Ali
“Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.” -Margaret Fuller
“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he’d had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, “Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird. “ -Anne Lamott
“Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.” -Haile Gebrselassie
“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.” -Vince Lombardi
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.” -Francis Chan
“Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.” -David Allen
“Think of many things; do one.” -Portuguese proverb
“If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.” -Ernest Hemingway
“A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.” -Mildred Struven
“If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.” -David Allen