Jessica Long - You're still a person with or without that gold medal. It just represents the hard work.

Debasish Mridha - Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.

Robert Griffin II - Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

Robert Half - Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Newt Gingrich - Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Rudy Francisco - Long after I have given up, my heart still searches for you without my permission.

Terry Mark - I went to sleep last night thinking about you, I woke up this morning still thinking about you. When I’m down, I whisper your name to myself and smile. I still love you, don’t doubt it.

Jessica Chastain - I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

William Shakespeare - A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Abhijit Naskar - Let me tell you, here and now as a black person, we don’t expect charity. We just expect the trust and dignity, to which the white person is entitled in this world by default.

h.r.d - Learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn to admire your beauty without finding fault. Learn to love yourself without the love of others.

Mariah Carey - I am thinking of you, In my sleepless solitude tonight. If it’s wrong to love you, then my heart just won’t let me be right. ‘Cause I’m drowned in you, And I won’t pull through, without

Nikki Schiefelbein - It's hard when you miss people. But you know if you miss them, that means you're lucky. It means you had someone special in your life, someone worth missing.

Dutee Chand - Gold medal always feels great. In fact, any appreciation or acknowledgement is a great morale booster.

Alex Rodriguez - Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

Sylvester Stallone - It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

Michelle Obama - You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still 'mom-in-chief.' My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.