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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Sep 18, 2025
The vital consideration of incentives is almost systematically overlooked in the proposals of agitators for more and bigger government welfare schemes. We should all be concerned about the plight of the poor and unfortunate. But the hard two-part question that any plan for relieving poverty must answer is: How can we mitigate the penalties of failure and misfortune without undermining the incentives to effort and success.
Hard work is the price we must pay for success
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo 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 street sweeper who did his job well.
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
The harder I work the more I live.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
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.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
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