Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

There is no substitute for hard work.

-- Thomas Edison

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

-- Thomas Edison

一生懸命だと知恵が出る、中途半端だと愚痴が出る、いい加減だと言い訳が出る。

-- The 'Tiger of Kai' who transformed his landlocked mountain domain into one of Sengoku Japan's most formidable military powers

Forgetting is the natural grace that time bestows.

-- Yasushi Inoue

Life is too long to do nothing, yet too short to accomplish something.

-- Atsushi Nakajima

One only sees what one already knows and understands.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe