A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Impossible is just an opinion.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control. The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Looking at the stars always makes me dream.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.

It matters not what goal you seek It's secret here reposes; You've got to dig from week to week To get Results and Roses.