To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.
Effort Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 103
Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
Golda Meir
Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.
Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
I believe that we're in an ideological struggle; I believe the only way to marginalize those who murder the innocent, to achieve our ideological objectives, is to spread democracy and freedom.
We spend trillions of dollars to travel around the world, but it's in everybody's interest that we have a better framework, and not just for the United States but for the entire world, in which to operate and trade.
Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence
Jay Bilas
If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues
Sugar Ray Leonard
What one has to do usually can be done.
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
Sophocles
That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.
Lesley Visser
One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the sun, for I took my light everywhere with me.
Georges Braque
Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!
Fay Wray
The effort of Reince Priebus and the RNC to reach out to movement conservatives has been impressive and will, I believe pay great dividends come election time
Ken Blackwell
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I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses.
The word gap leads to an achievement gap and has life-long consequences
