Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. ~Edward H. Harriman


The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ~Edward Gibbon; The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire


Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. ~Jos? Ortega y Gassett


Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once. ~Mignon McLaughlin; The Second Neurotic's Notebook; 1966


The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. ~Garth Henrichs


Doors don't slam open. ~John M. Shanahan; The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)


Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. ~Sidney J. Phillips


The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. ~Sarah Brown


Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday; but did anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin; The Second Neurotic's Notebook; 1966


Many people think they want things; but they don't really have the strength; the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough. ~Sophia Loren


The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall


Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb


Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. ~Author Unknown


The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues; whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber; as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning. ~Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry; The Wisdom of the Sands; translated from French by Stuart Gilbert


"All the so-called ""secrets of success"" will not work unless you do. ~Author Unknown"


Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in. ~Chinese Saying


The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb


About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. ~Gloria Pitzer


Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately; you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. ~Ulysses S. Grant


The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. ~Author Unknown


I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time; somehow things will work out in the end. ~Larry Bird


The artist is nothing without the gift; but the gift is nothing without work. ~Emile Zola


I'm a great believer in luck; and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson


Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. ~Heywood Hale Broun


If you can do a half-assed job of anything; you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. ~Kurt Vonnegut; Jr.


Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb


If a man is called a streetsweeper; he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted; or Beethoven composed music; or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say; Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. ~Martin Luther King; Jr.


Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown


He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


Put your heart; mind; intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ~Swami Sivananda


He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. ~Dutch Proverb





Plough deep while sluggards sleep. ~Benjamin Franklin


You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Author Unknown


He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. ~Joseph Heller; Catch-22; 1961


People know you for what you've done; not for what you plan to do. ~Author Unknown


When I was young; I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. ~George Bernard Shaw


Hard work spotlights the character of people:? some turn up their sleeves; some turn up their noses; and some don't turn up at all. ~Sam Ewing


Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison


We work for praise; and dawdle once we have it. ~Mignon McLaughlin; The Neurotic's Notebook; 1960


God gives every bird its food; but He does not throw it into its nest. ~J.G. Holland


One saves oneself much pain; by taking pains; much trouble; by taking trouble. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare; Guesses at Truth; by Two Brothers; 1827


To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~Confucius; Analects


God gave us two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use. Head you win; tail you lose. ~Author Unknown


Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. ~Ann Landers


Things may come to those who wait; but only the things left by those who hustle. ~Abraham Lincoln


Gift; like genius; I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains. ~Jane Ellice Hopkins


No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. ~Antonio Porchia; Voces; 1943; translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew; and then chewing anyway. ~Mark Burnett


For us; there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. ~T.S. Eliot


No man ever wetted clay and then left it; as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. ~Plutarch


There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door; give out that you are not at home; and work. ~Joseph de Maistre


Even if you're on the right track; you'll get run over if you just sit there. ~Will Rogers