Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coordination.

There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.

We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.

Hell itself must yield to industry.

When people say God blessed me with a beautiful jump shot, it really pisses me off. I tell those people, 'Don't undermine the work I've put in every day.' Not some days. Every day.

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

There is a lot of hard work that needs to be done

My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something.

Genius is the art of taking pains

Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.

High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.