Inspiration

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.

-- Anonymous

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

-- Aristotle

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

-- James Baldwin

I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

-- Lucille Ball

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

-- Arnold Bennett

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

-- Thomas Arnold Bennett

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

-- Josh Billings

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

-- Phillip Brooks

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may.

-- Jimmy Buffett, Cowboy in the Jungle (song)

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

-- Emily Dickinson

Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.

-- Thomas Edison

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