“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”

Louis L’Amour 

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” –Lou Holtz

“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.”

Mario Cuomo

“You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.”

Alan Alda

“There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.”

Cesar Chavez