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“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
Persistent effort improves the odds of useful results because steady work creates more opportunities for progress than waiting for favorable circumstances.
Poor Richard’s Almanack; the maxim appears in Franklin’s collected Poor Richard material.
“Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.”
Resolution becomes useful only when followed by execution; the maxim links deliberate standards with the habit of carrying them through.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Part II, thirteen-virtue table: Resolution. Project Gutenberg #148 (Charles W. Eliot / Harvard Classics, 1909) preserves the represented wording; the reviewed direct locator is Wikisource Section Thirty Six.
“Ambition, energy, industry, perseverance, are indispensable requisites for success in business.”
The sentence presents business success as a compound result of sustained energy and persistence rather than a single clever idea or fortunate moment.
The Art of Money Getting, in Barnum’s discussion of thorough work and business effort.
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
Large achievements often depend more on continued effort than on a single burst of power.
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia.
“Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.”
Douglass grants the importance of opportunity while insisting that sustained exertion remains necessary for achievement, refusing to let either circumstance or effort erase the importance of the other.
Self-Made Men lecture, commonly dated to 1872 in edited versions. Library of Congress preserves undated manuscript, typescript and printed-copy materials, including a later Carlisle version; Douglass delivered and revised the lecture across his speaking career. The lecture also stresses social interdependence, so this line should not be reduced to a simplistic bootstrap claim.
“My race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner.”
Distinctive success can come from doing ordinary work unusually well, emphasizing thoroughness and indispensable usefulness rather than status.
Up from Slavery, Chapter XVI, “Europe,” Project Gutenberg #2376. While discussing Henry O. Tanner and recognition for excellent work, Washington restates his Tuskegee principle that advancement depends on doing useful work so thoroughly that its value becomes difficult to ignore.
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”
Progress is framed as requiring energy and courage rather than comfort, while the phrase also acknowledges that effort can be painful.
Speech “The Strenuous Life,” April 10, 1899.
“Slow and steady wins the race.”
The moral values sustained progress over bursts of speed that are not matched by attention or follow-through.
Traditional English moral associated with the fable; wording is later than the ancient Greek tradition.
“There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.”
Progress requires giving up competing habits or comforts so that effort can stay directed toward the chosen end.
As a Man Thinketh, chapter “The Thought-Factor in Achievement.”
“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Achievement is measured against the difficulty of the path, not just the final position, making endurance and progress part of the definition of success.
Up from Slavery, Chapter II, “Boyhood Days,” Project Gutenberg #2376. Washington reflects on the obstacles facing Black youth after slavery and measures success by difficulty overcome rather than by final social position; the historical racial context is kept explicit.
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
Enthusiasm is treated as the emotional force that turns ideas into sustained effort rather than leaving them as passive intentions.
Essay “Circles,” in Essays: First Series; the line closes a passage about energetic action.
“Progress, however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.”
Smiles treats durable progress as incremental rather than instantaneous, arguing that worthwhile results are built through repeated effort and patience instead of expecting one dramatic breakthrough.
Self-Help, Chapter IV, “Application and Perseverance,” Project Gutenberg #935. The sentence opens a paragraph that continues, “Great results cannot be achieved at once,” and compares advancement in life to walking step by step.
“Yet I did hope for success, and persisted in the undertaking.”
Douglass links hope with continued effort: uncertainty about the outcome does not prevent him from persisting in a difficult undertaking.
My Bondage and My Freedom; Douglass is recounting one of the practical struggles through which persistence accompanied his pursuit of greater freedom and independence.
“Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings.”
Consistent skill and diligence can create opportunities that status alone cannot guarantee.
Proverbs 22:29, King James Version.
“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight.”
Sustained achievement is presented as the result of continued effort rather than a single dramatic leap.
Poem “The Ladder of St. Augustine.”
“Whatever you do, do it with all your might.”
Barnum argues for wholehearted execution rather than half-effort, especially when a task is important enough to deserve sustained attention.
The Art of Money Getting, section headed “Whatever You Do, Do It With All Your Might.”
“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”
Good work can carry its own reward when satisfaction comes from meeting the standard rather than from applause or payment alone.
Lecture “New England Reformers.”
“Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.”
Anticipation and active pursuit can carry more energy than possession itself, making the process part of the reward.
Troilus and Cressida, Act I, Scene 2, Project Gutenberg #1528; Cressida speaks privately after Pandarus leaves. ‘Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing’ occurs in her reflection that people prize what is still ungained and that love can seem sweetest while desire is still suing; she then resolves to conceal her own love. It remains fictional dramatic psychology inside the play’s courtship plot, not a universal motivational or happiness law.
“First, do nothing inconsiderately, nor without a purpose.”
Deliberate action begins by knowing why an act is being done instead of moving from impulse, distraction, or social pressure.
Meditations, Book XII, section 20, George Long translation.
“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”
The value of a journey can lie in purposeful movement and effort rather than only in the moment of arrival.
Essay “El Dorado.”
“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.”
Aims influence action; without a chosen direction, effort is less likely to converge on a meaningful result.
Walden, Conclusion; the line appears in Thoreau’s argument that chosen aims shape what people are likely to reach.
“I attribute my success to this:—I never gave or took an excuse.”
Nightingale describes her working habit as acting on responsibility rather than accepting excuses when practical failures required correction.
Letter to Miss H. Bonham Carter [1861], transcribed in Sir Edward Cook, The Life of Florence Nightingale, Vol. I, Project Gutenberg #40057. The sentence follows Nightingale’s account of correcting a hotel cistern failure and represents her own retrospective claim about her working method.
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Roosevelt contrasts the disappointment of an unsuccessful attempt with the deeper loss of never attempting worthwhile work at all, making participation and effort more important than guaranteed success.
The Strenuous Life, speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10, 1899; Project Gutenberg #58821. The sentence appears in Roosevelt’s opening argument for active effort and immediately follows his praise of the person who embodies “victorious effort”; it is preserved as historical motivational rhetoric rather than a promise that effort always produces success.
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
Beginnings shape habits and direction, so the first stage of a serious undertaking deserves unusual care.
The Republic, Book II, Benjamin Jowett translation. The retained catalog wording is a shortened common form of Jowett’s longer sentence, “the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing”; it should not be presented as a verbatim full sentence from the represented edition.
“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream.”
Large achievements begin before they are visible, as imagined possibilities that must survive long enough to become plans and sustained effort.
As a Man Thinketh, chapter “Visions and Ideals”; Allen follows with natural images of the oak in the acorn and the bird in the egg.
“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
Johnson presents accurate confidence in one's own powers as necessary before attempting difficult work, while the next sentence warns that confidence formed without comparison to real ability can still be mistaken.
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, “Pope”; Wikisource transcription of Johnson's Life of Pope. Johnson writes the sentence while discussing Alexander Pope's early estimate of his own abilities and immediately qualifies it by warning that isolated self-estimation can err.
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”
Doubt becomes harmful when it stops useful action before reality has had a chance to test what might be possible.
Measure for Measure, Lucio to Isabella. The retained modern locator is Act I, Scene 4; the represented 1623 First Folio witness, reviewed through the 1910 Methuen facsimile transcription on Wikisource, labels the same scene Act I, Scene V (Scena Quinta). Lucio urges Isabella to test her ability to plead for Claudio rather than let doubt prevent the attempt. This is fictional dramatic speech, not Shakespeare speaking autobiographically or a universal psychological law.
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
Hope is presented as an active foundation for achievement: confidence in possibility helps sustain the effort needed to move from intention to result.
Optimism: An Essay; Keller connects optimism with purposeful action rather than passive cheerfulness.
“The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.”
Personal development begins with active responsibility for one’s own effort and choices, even when circumstances and institutions still matter.
Self-Help, Chapter I, “Self-Help—National and Individual,” Project Gutenberg #935. This is the opening chapter’s statement of Smiles’s self-help argument, where individual initiative is presented as a source of personal growth and, in his period framework, national strength.
“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success.”
Failure can expose what does not work and force closer observation, turning setbacks into information that uncomplicated success may never reveal.
Self-Help, Chapter XI, “Self-Culture—Facilities and Difficulties,” Project Gutenberg #935. The passage follows Charles James Fox’s contrast between early success and perseverance after failure, then leads into examples of discoveries and learning produced through mistakes and failed attempts.
“Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
The comic instruction reduces a complicated task to sequence: start, continue, and recognize when the work is complete.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 12.
“The produce of labour constitutes the natural recompence or wages of labour.”
Smith begins his wages discussion from the idea that labour’s product is the worker’s original recompense before later property relations divide output.
The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter VIII; Project Gutenberg #3300. The historical spelling “recompence” is retained and the sentence belongs to a larger theoretical argument.
“grudge no expense of trouble, patience, or courage, in the striving to accomplish the hard thing you have set yourselves to do.”
Addressing art students, Morris emphasizes the persistence, patience and courage needed to carry difficult creative work toward the standard the maker has chosen.
Hopes and Fears for Art, lecture “The Art of the People”; Project Gutenberg #3773. The counsel is explicitly directed to people studying or practicing art.
“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.”
Shared effort can increase both practical results and resilience because responsibility does not rest on one person alone.
Ecclesiastes 4:9, King James Version.
“Our birthright is made up of something far more imperishable. It consists of the sum of the useful effects of human skill and labour.”
Smiles values inherited skill and labour more highly than material wealth alone, framing social inheritance as accumulated useful human capability.
Thrift, Chapter I, “Industry,” Project Gutenberg #14418. Smiles contrasts inherited material wealth with the more durable inheritance of useful human skill and labour transmitted across generations by teaching and example.
“The noblest poem cannot be elaborated, and send down its undying strains into the future, without steady and painstaking labour.”
Poetic achievement is used as an example of creative work requiring patient elaboration rather than appearing complete in a single burst.
Thrift, Chapter I, “Industry,” Project Gutenberg #14418. The sentence follows Smiles’s claim that useful and beautiful thoughts arise from sustained intellectual work and uses poetry as one example of painstaking creative labour.
“So, in writing, only out of long preparation can come the truly triumphant flash”
The sudden-looking breakthrough is placed at the end of preparation rather than outside it: memorable execution is supported by work accumulated beforehand.
On The Art of Reading, Lecture V, Project Gutenberg #16579; excerpted from Quiller-Couch’s analogy between writing practice and concentrated performance.
“The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field, I cannot reap a kernel of the good.”
Positive thought is made accountable to conduct: Keller insists that appreciation of good must be turned into practical living and personal effort.
Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. The field and harvest are metaphors for putting an optimistic creed into practice.
“every good piece of art, to whichever of these ends it may be directed, involves first essentially the evidence of human skill and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.”
Ruskin makes skilled human making and achieved beauty basic components of good art, foregrounding workmanship before his additional demands for truth or usefulness.
Lectures on Art, Lecture IV, Project Gutenberg #19164. The sentence belongs to Ruskin’s own theory of artistic quality.
“the patient and indefatigable touch of a mighty master becomes more wonderful to me than to others.”
Ruskin describes patient technical execution as something that becomes more impressive when the viewer understands, through practice, how difficult such sustained control is.
Lectures on Art, Lecture III, Project Gutenberg #19164. The sentence follows Ruskin’s admission that his own impatience helps him notice patient workmanship.
“On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.”
Instead of beginning with what an event has taken away, the practice asks which capacity—endurance, restraint, patience, or judgment—can still be exercised.
Enchiridion, section X, George Long translation; Epictetus gives examples such as endurance under pain and patience under abuse.
“Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.”
Finishing and enduring are given more weight than the excitement of starting or the pride of appearance.
Ecclesiastes 7:8 in the King James Version; the verse contrasts patient spirit with pride and values the completed end of a matter over the excitement of its beginning.
“The aim is an inner one, namely, that the child train himself to observe; that he be led to make comparisons between objects, to form judgments, to reason and to decide; and it is in the indefinite repetition of this exercise of attention and of intelligence that a real development ensues.”
The educational objective is not merely completion of an exercise but cultivation of observation, comparison, judgment, reasoning and increasingly independent decision-making.
Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook. The sentence continues by connecting repeated exercises of attention and intelligence with development; it is Montessori’s pedagogical rationale for the material.
“The majority of successful men are persons who have had difficulties to overcome, problems to master; and, in overcoming those difficulties and mastering those problems, they have gained strength of mind and a clearness of vision that few persons who have lived a life of ease have been able to attain.”
Difficulty can train judgment when it has to be actively mastered; the claimed benefit comes from the capacities developed while solving problems, not from hardship being desirable in itself.
My Larger Education, Chapter I, “Learning from Men and Things”; Project Gutenberg #73923. Washington connects repeated problem-solving with strength of mind and clearer judgment, contrasting developed capacity with an untested life of ease.
“The courage of the soldiers depends upon the wisdom of the general.”
Leadership affects collective courage because people take greater risks when they trust the judgment guiding the group.
The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, saying 206, D. Lyman Jr. translation (1856).
“The ambition to live strictly according to the highest common sense during the next twenty-four hours is an ambition that needs a lot of beating.”
Bennett deliberately reduces improvement to the next day: consistently applying sound judgment for twenty-four hours is already a demanding practical aim.
The Human Machine, concluding emphasis on present practice over distant aspiration. The idiom “needs a lot of beating” means the ambition is difficult to surpass, not that it requires violence.
“All that a man can do is to form such resolves as from time to time accord with the circumstances in which he is placed, in the hope of thus managing to advance a step nearer towards the final goal.”
Instead of treating a life plan as fixed in every detail, Schopenhauer describes progress as a series of resolutions adjusted to changing circumstances while preserving a larger direction.
Counsels and Maxims, T. Bailey Saunders translation; Project Gutenberg #10715. The following geometric analogy describes life as the resultant of circumstances and aims.
“The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.”
Smith distinguishes nominal money price from the labour and sacrifice required to acquire something, making cost broader than the number printed on a transaction.
The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter V; Project Gutenberg #3300. This belongs to Smith’s labour-command discussion of real and nominal price.
“I, too, can work, and because I love to labor with my head and my hands, I am an optimist in spite of all.”
Love of intellectual and manual labour becomes evidence of Keller’s active optimism, connecting outlook with her willingness to contribute despite limits.
Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. The sentence follows Keller’s discussion of Carlyle’s historical “gospel of work.”
“what is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?”
Morris defines artistic practice through workmanship and a deliberate standard of excellence, joining creative identity to sustained attention to the quality of the work itself.
Hopes and Fears for Art, lecture “Making the Best of It”; Project Gutenberg #3773. The sentence addresses artistic workmanship rather than claiming every form of labor is art.
“The habits of œconomy, industry, discretion, attention, and application of thought, are generally supposed to be cultivated from self-interested motives.”
Smith acknowledges that disciplined habits can arise from self-interest while still being socially praised for the steadiness, care, and practical competence they develop.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Part VI, Section II discussion of systems that make virtue consist in benevolence; historical spelling “œconomy” is retained.
“Let us live up to the fulness of our possibilities each day. Man has only one day of life—to-day.”
Jordan makes development immediate: today is the only day in which ability, responsibility and intention can actually be converted into conduct.
The Power of Truth, “People Who Live in Air-Castles.” The line is a present-action argument within conduct-of-life writing, not a literal denial of memory, planning or future obligations.
“To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.”
Hamilton argues that a wider variety of productive pursuits can encourage enterprise and contribute to national economic activity.
Final Report on the Subject of Manufactures, December 5, 1791, preserved by Founders Online / National Archives. The sentence appears in Hamilton’s argument for diversifying occupations and manufacturing activity. It is eighteenth-century political economy and policy advocacy, not current economic or investment guidance.
“And on top of this let me assure you that in writing, or learning to write, solid daily practice is the prescription and 'waiting upon inspiration' a lure.”
Quiller-Couch puts dependable practice ahead of waiting for inspiration, making regular work the ordinary foundation from which stronger moments can emerge.
On The Art of Reading, Lecture V, Project Gutenberg #16579; the surrounding analogy connects disciplined reading with the harder sister art of writing.
“When you have decided that a thing ought to be done, and are doing it, never avoid being seen doing it.”
Once judgment has concluded an action is right, misplaced criticism should not become a reason to hide or abandon the action.
Enchiridion, chapter 35, George Long translation; the following sentence distinguishes right action from fear of wrong criticism.
“Here is my work, here or nowhere.”
Carlyle’s imagined capable leader locates responsibility in the actual sphere available to him rather than waiting for a more convenient setting in which to act.
Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. IV “The New Downing Street”; Project Gutenberg #1140. The sentence occurs inside Carlyle’s controversial political argument about leadership; this collection uses it for work/responsibility while retaining that historical context.
“the desire and will to work is optimism itself.”
Optimism is defined here as willingness to participate and act, sharply distinguishing Keller’s position from passive expectation that circumstances will improve on their own.
Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. Keller is describing her future-facing desire for useful activity as college ends.
“That you must master the secret for yourselves lay implicit in our bargain, and you were never promised that a writer's training would be easy.”
Learning to write is presented as demanding practice rather than a shortcut: difficulty belongs to the training and does not by itself signal failure.
On the Art of Writing, Lecture XII, “On Style,” Project Gutenberg #17470; excerpted from Quiller-Couch’s reminder that students must master craft for themselves.
“Little strokes fell great oaks.”
Small repeated efforts can accomplish work that seems too large for a single burst of effort, making consistency itself a practical form of strength.
Poor Richard’s Almanack; a compact maxim about cumulative effort.
“The foundation of success in life is good health.”
Achievement is treated as dependent on the physical capacity to work, think, and sustain effort rather than as a purely financial or professional matter.
The Art of Money Getting; Barnum places health before the business maxims that follow.
“Fidelity in small things is at the base of every great achievement.”
Large achievements are connected to dependable attention in ordinary tasks, making reliability in small repeated acts part of the foundation rather than an afterthought.
The Simple Life, Chapter V, “Simple Duty,” Mary Louise Hendee translation, Project Gutenberg #23092; the sentence appears in Wagner’s discussion of everyday obligations.
“each morning will find you in the recitation rooms with your lessons more thoroughly and more conscientiously prepared for the day’s work than they were for the work of the day before.”
Daily preparation is used as a measurable form of growth: each day’s work should become more thorough and conscientious than the last.
Character Building, “Growth,” Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington is speaking specifically about students preparing lessons and cultivating disciplined study habits.
“Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns.”
Wanting an outcome is separated from doing the work and developing the character that can sustain it.
As a Man Thinketh, chapter “Effect of Thought on Circumstances.”
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.”
The sentence distinguishes inherited status, earned achievement, and unexpected responsibility, making greatness look less like one single path.
Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene 5; 1922 Yale Shakespeare edition edited by George Henry Nettleton, printed page 43 / Wikisource scan leaf 55. Malvolio reads “some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them” from Maria’s forged letter written in Olivia’s supposed voice as part of the prank. The maxim remains an embedded deceptive written voice rather than Malvolio’s original saying or Shakespeare’s direct advice about success.
“The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness.”
Steady planning and effort are contrasted with haste, making diligence a long-term rather than impulsive strategy.
Proverbs 21:5 in the King James Version; the first clause is quoted here.
“Prosperity is a more severe ordeal than adversity, especially sudden prosperity.”
Sudden financial improvement can test restraint because rising income may encourage equally rapid expansion of spending, display, and recurring obligations.
The Art of Money Getting, economy section; Project Gutenberg #8581. Barnum introduces the line while describing lifestyle expansion after financial success.
“He who has not one and always the same object in life cannot remain one and the same.”
A stable guiding aim can organize choices over time and prevent priorities from changing with every pressure.
Meditations, Book XI, in George Long’s translation; punctuation has been lightly modernized.
“It’s all I’ve got to think of now—to do my work well and make the world a bit better place for them as can enjoy it.”
After severe loss, Adam redirects attention toward doing his work well and improving what he can for other people rather than expecting his own circumstances to be restored.
Adam Bede; Adam speaks to Arthur late in the novel after the central tragedy, so the line is grounded in grief, work, and responsibility rather than generic productivity advice.
“every one will enjoy securely the Profits of his Industry.”
Franklin presents secure enjoyment of earned returns as one advantage he associated with laws and liberty in the North America of his period.
Information to Those Who Would Remove to America, before March 1784; Founders Online. The statement is eighteenth-century description and advocacy, not modern financial, employment or immigration guidance.
“I have put my whole soul into my study, into my work, into whatever I have attempted.”
The model statement asks a student to be able to say that study and work received full engagement rather than minimal compliance.
Character Building, “What Is To Be Our Future?”, Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington offers the sentence as a standard students should be able to affirm about their own effort.
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“His motto was 'Persevere!'”
The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson · 1868Read meaning & context →“That is my right work”
Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne · 1867Read meaning & context →“America is the Land of Labour”
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As a Man Thinketh · 1903Read meaning & context →“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.”
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