“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
Benjamin Franklin (verified)
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“I have no dress except the one I wear. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one [a wedding dress], please let it be practical and dark, so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.”
— Marie Curie (verified, secondary source)“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“Little strokes fell great oaks.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Never leave till tomorrow what you can do today.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Be always ashamed to catch thyself idle.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“At the working man’s house hunger looks in but dares not enter.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Have you something to do tomorrow; do it today.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“If a man has failed, you will find he has dreamed instead of working. There is no way to success in our art, but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“The cat in gloves catches no mice.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
— Thomas Edison (unverified)