Learn Through Quotations

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? ”

“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. ”

“If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.”

“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”

“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.”

“Cutting stalks at noontime. Perspiration drips to the earth. Know you that your bowl of rice each grain from hardship comes?”

“Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods and are inclined to be satisfied with such results as can be obtained by doing things they like to do. The common denominator of success - the secret of every man who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.”

“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”

“Little strokes fell great oaks.”

“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.”

“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”

“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.”

“No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work.”

“My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.”

“A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.”

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

“If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.”

“We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself.... It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.”

“The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer.”

“Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one.”

“Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.”

“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.”

“Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.”