The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.
Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.