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The distance between success and your dreams is hard work.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Talent is the seed, hard work is the stem, perseverance is the branch, and success is the fruit.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Skill + hard work = SuccessSkill + hard work + prayer = Great success
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Thirty-five things have to go wrong for the best thing to happen in your career
- Conan O'Brien
Few find success without hard work and determination. Those who do have hardly gained anything for themselves that they deserve.
- Anonymous
I was blessed throughout my entire career. I had people rooting for me. It started with my parents, but it extended to almost every teacher that I had.
- Michelle Obama
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
A firm confidence that the blessing is actually within our reach is the first step toward obtaining it and a powerful impulse in the pursuit.
- Andrew Murray
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
- Samuel Johnson
Driven by petty ambition, we serve only ourselves. St. Josemaria put it well: "Those who are 'ambitious,' with small, personal, miserable ambitions, cannot understand that the friends of God should seek to achieve something through a spirit of service and without such'ambition.' " We should never confuse Christian humility and modesty with a will to underachieve.
- Scott Hahn
So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
- John Bunyan