Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.

Hard work. Well, that=s all right for people who don=t know how to do anything else. It=s all right for people who aren=t lucky. But once you==re lucky, you don=t have to work for other people. You make them work for you.

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.

I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That's who we are - a nation that rewards ambition with opportunity. Where hard work can lead to success, no matter where you start.

Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.

I have confidence, not only in this country and her institutions, but in the endurance, capacity, and destiny of my people. We will, as opportunity offers and ability serves, seek our places, sometimes in the field of letters, arts, sciences, and the professions.

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

When I come to schools like Norton Primary Academy and meet children who have their lives and careers before them, I hope in some small way that I can inspire them to do better by sharing my own story with them and telling them never to give up on their dreams.

My parents instilled a lot of American values in me. They encouraged me to work hard and told me that anything was possible for me because I was a citizen.

Destiny plays an important part, but talent and hard work is also important.

I really do think that is why this country is so great: If you want to accomplish something, then you must do it.

Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

Energy plus talent and you are a king, energy and no talent and you are still a prince, talent and no energy and you are a pauper

Freedom is the core of all human progress. It believes that nothing's given to us, but if you're willing to work hard. If you're willing to compete, the American dream is there for you.

There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here.

High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.

As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.

One of the best things about growing up in New Zealand is that if you are prepared to work hard and have faith in yourself, truly anything is possible.