You cannot plough a field by t...

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

~Author Unknown~

Yes, to be a good parent, you ...

Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.

~Robert Brault, ~

Whenever a man does the best h...

Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

~Harry S. Truman~

When I was young, I observed t...

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~

What we hope ever to do with e...

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

~Samuel Johnson~

We work for praise, and dawdle...

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960~

We forget that every good that...

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.

~William James~

To go beyond is as wrong as to...

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

~Confucius, Analects~

Though the barriers of life se...

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.

~Robert Brault, ~

Things may come to those who w...

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

~Abraham Lincoln~

There's nothing like biting of...

There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.

~Mark Burnett~

There are no easy methods of l...

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~

The winds and waves are always...

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

~Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire~

The person who is waiting for ...

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

~Garth Henrichs~

The only thing that ever sat i...

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

~Sarah Brown~

The only place where success c...

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.

~Vidal Sassoon~

The one thing that matters is ...

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-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert~

The human condition is such th...

The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ''easy life of the gods'' would be a lifeless life.

~Hannah Arendt~

The footprint of the owner is ...

The footprint of the owner is the best manure.

~English Proverb~

The difference between try and...

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.

~Author Unknown~