My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
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Strength to step forward is the primary need of him who has chosen his path.
Mabel Collins, Through the Gates of Gold
Enter upon to-morrow with a clean slate and a free mind. Don't be mortgaged to the past, and never look back.
Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front
You cannot study anything persistently for years without becoming learned, and although I would not hold reputation up to you as a very high object of ambition, it is a wayside flower which you are sure to have catch at your skirts.
Maria Mitchell, Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
You can cultivate courage and increase it at every minute and hour of the day.
Prentice Mulford, Your Forces, and How to Use Them
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life
Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts…
James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
If there is anything to do, there is certainly a best way to do it, and the best way is both the most economical and the most graceful.
Inazō Nitobe, Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Let right deeds be Thy motive, not the fruit which comes from them. And live in action! Labour! Make thine acts Thy piety, casting all self aside…
Bhagavad Gita, The Song Celestial
…a man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin
Just as surely as you do the best you can the best will come to you.
Emma Curtis Hopkins, Mary and Martha
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Nothing great, said Epictetus, is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.
Epictetus, Discourses
What is Initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.
Elbert Hubbard, Love, Life & Work
…if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and what you are…
Russell H. Conwell, Acres of Diamonds
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual…
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct
…tho' I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it…
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout; the tower of nine storeys rose from a (small) heap of earth; the journey of a thousand li commenced with a single step.
Lao Tzu, The Tao Teh King
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.
Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front
It is not ease, but effort—not facility, but difficulty, that makes men.
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct
As a log or rock which, motionless on flat ground, yet moves with ever-increasing force when set on an incline, so await the opportunity, and so act when the opportunity arrives.
Sun Tzu, The Book of War
Do you know that we are young giants who have not discovered our own strength?
William Walker Atkinson, Nuggets of the New Thought