Sherman Alexie Quotes

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."

The days you work are the best days.

Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

The greatest feeling is coming away with a victory, seeing all of your hard work in training camp paying off. That's the best feeling.

It's always really great when your hard work pays off.

It's very simple: When you're working your hardest, the world opens up to you.

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

Success is the reward for toil.

Hard work is the main thing-hard work and dedication. And I think a great part of it is goal setting. You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them. Every goal that I've set, I've been able to achieve. That's been very fulfilling.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.

I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

I'm happy for the success that I've had, but I've worked so hard at it.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.