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"Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being. It is an essential part of the inner state of peace, the state that has been called the peace of God. It is your natural state, not something that you need to work hard for or struggle to attain."
"I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor."
"I was a teenager doing teenager things, and now I have the honor of being on tour with musical giants Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull. I'm doing my music and performing in my own concerts! It just goes to show that anything is possible with hard work."
"I think that I work hard to make my music as a diary for new generations who find out about it years later. They can go through the history and see a trail. It's straight and narrow, you can see the growth and understand that I'm not afraid to give you honesty and be honest about anything that has to do with my story."
"My dad always told me that I could be anything I wanted, if I was willing to work hard enough to achieve it."
"President Bush delivered a commencement speech at a university in Wisconsin. A very inspirational speech. Apparently Bush told the students, 'You can do anything in life if your parents work hard enough.'"
"I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me!"
"It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them."
"It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work."
"The key to success? Work hard, stay focused and marry a Kennedy."
"It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work."
"If you don't work hard, then you aren't going to have the success that you want. But if you work hard and dig in, then you are going to have the success that you want."
"If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life."
"Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself"
"I'm not cocky at all. You ask anybody, I'm one of the nicest guys. I try to be as humble as I can, but if you work hard, sometimes you know that you earned more respect."
"Get your hustle on... Hard work is easy, working out is hard."
"When I got a chance to rap, I just busted my ass. When I got a chance to act, I busted my ass. Anytime I get a chance. I'm not wasting time. I won't do it if I'm not doing it 110 percent. You've got to work hard if you want to play hard. I like to play, but I know I gotta bust my ass."
"The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline."
"You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them."
"We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded."
