E. W. Howe Quotes

Free time is the enemy of progress

Talented people without discipline don't go anywhere.

Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

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.

After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the way back to high school. It was a year-round process of constantly having to work and be disciplined, and I was able to understand and connect the dots between all those characteristics - especially hard work and success.

I know only one way: work hard.

I know what it takes to make myself perform.

I can control my effort, how hard I work and taking advantage of the opportunities.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working!

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.

You can achieve only that which you will do.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.

There are a ton of qualities that can help you succeed, and the more carefully a quality has been studied, the more you know it's worth your time and energy.