“Too many irons, not enough fire.”

“Wrote my way out of the hood…thought my way out of poverty! Don’t tell me that knowledge isn’t power. Education changes everything.”

“Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.”

“When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.”

“Do not let your good ideas to spend your brain energy, do it with all the effort because the shadow of the success can become a reality only with hard work.”

“Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.”

“There’s no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equals as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that’s that. I am not talented. I am obsessed.”

“It doesn’t matter how great your shoes are if you don’t accomplish anything in them.”

“As Aristotle said, ‘Excellence is a habit.’ I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he’s ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.”

“If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault.”

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”

“Men do not know how much they are capable of doing till they try”

“Unless you pay the price for success you will not know its worth.”

“I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.”