Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Interpretation
Ambition and hard work are essential for achieving success.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of both ambition and diligent effort in the pursuit of goals. It suggests that without a strong desire to achieve something (ambition), one will not even begin the path towards success, and without putting in the necessary work, one will not be able to complete what they start. Success is portrayed as something that cannot be passively received; rather, it must be actively pursued and earned.
In practice
This quote can be used during a motivational speech to inspire students to pursue their dreams.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.
Sure, I could give advice; I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.
No great goal was ever easily achieved.
No matter where you are now, whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve.
It's like anything in life, visualizing the old man you're going to become: As long as you have a clear picture of that - the life you want to lead - eventually you'll probably get there.
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