Edgar Lee Masters Quotes

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

I've never had anything given to me. I've never had anything easy. My whole career has been that way.

All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; ad if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility.

The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.

I've always had to work hard for what I've got and to stay where I was.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

I try to do my best.

The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.

I've worked very hard for everything I have and nothing has come easy.

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues.

I earned the right to get in the team, and fought every game to be in it.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

I have worked hard to get where I am.

Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

I ain't going to say everything I touch turns to gold or camouflage. I've got to work hard to keep what I've got. Nothing comes easy to me. It never has.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.