"Be prepared to work hard to be a writer."
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"Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle."
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"Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard."
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"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."
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"Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it."
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"I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater."
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"If you are one of those people who believe that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches-perish the thought; because it's not true. Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work. Riches come if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck."
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"You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball."
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"There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination."
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"There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work."
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"Love isn’t only love, sweetheart. It’s hard work, and trust, and tears, with even a few glimpses of devastation. But at the end of each day, if you can still look at the person at your side and can’t imagine anyone else you’d rather have there, the pain and heartache and the ups and downs of love are worth it."
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"To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating."
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"I never allow myself to become discouraged under any circumstances. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work, second, stick-to-ittiveness, third, common sense."
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"No one has come up with a substitute for hard work."
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"There will always be people who challenge the idea that you belong, but it's important to work hard, to focus on yourself, and prove that you belong in this space of high-level athletics."
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"Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don’t have time."
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"Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning."
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"There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money. If you fail, do not be discouraged; try again. When you do well, do not change your ways. Success is not just good luck: it is a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. Success will not last if you do not take care of it."
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"Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."
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"Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple."
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