Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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.
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.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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.
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.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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.
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.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
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