In 1986, a group of researchers published a study of Japanese mothers and mothers in Minneapolis. The mothers were asked to rank the most important things that a child needs to succeed academically. The answers tell a lot about the difference in our two cultures today. The mothers in Minneapolis chose “ability.” The mothers in Japan said “effort.” ~ Richard H. Finan, State Senator from Ohio.
“The female steamer duck can fly, but only about 1/4 of the males are able, and only before they eat! The rest are too heavy to get airborne. They use their wings as paddles and beat furiously across the surface of the water, never quite able to break into flight.” ~ Source Unknown.
“Chance is a word devoid of sense, nothing can exist without a cause.” -Voltaire
“All the so-called “secrets of success” will not work unless you do.” ~Author Unknown
“You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.” ~Author Unknown
“Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.” ~Edward H. Harriman
“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.” ~J.G. Holland
“The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” ~Thomas Jefferson
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