No man ever listened himself out of a job. -Calvin Coolidge

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Luck? 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

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. — Horace

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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. - Golda Meir

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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. — Booker T. Washington

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When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw. — Nelson Mandela

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Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.

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In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

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Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself. ― Epictetus

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I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. ― Rudyard Kipling

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