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"Talent helps, but success is only achieved and sustained through consistent effort."
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Personal Development
"I tried your best and it didn't work, so now I'm going to try my best and I'm sure that I'll succeed!"
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Personal Development
"Diligence always makes a person rich."
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Personal Development
"Do not stop giving your soul-best."
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Personal Development
"If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy."
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Personal Development
"Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses."
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Personal Development
"Success comes before work only in the dictionary."
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Personal Development
"Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive."
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Personal Development
"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."
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Personal Development
"You get what you work for, not what you think you deserve."
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Personal Development
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"Verse satire indeed is entirely our own."
Writing
"Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues."
Ambition
"For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set."
Mind
"When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield."
Hope
"Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture."
Work
"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."
Imagination
"Without natural gifts technical rules are useless."
Knowledge
"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."
Defeat
"The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice."
Character
"As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone."
Family
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