“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
Sometimes you just need someone to tell you to keep going. These quotes deliver that push — not with empty cheerfulness, but with the earned conviction of people who have been where you are and made it to the other side.
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
“Never complain and never explain.”
“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”
“Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.”
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”
“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.”
“Well done is better than well said.”
“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.”
“The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.”
“If you've got a talent, protect it.”
“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”