Give yourself something to work toward—constantly.

—Mary Kay Ash

work effort constancy

About Mary Kay Ash

Mary Kay Ash (born Mary Kathlyn Wagner; May 12, 1918 – November 22, 2001) was an American businesswoman and founder of direct sales company Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc. At the time of her death, she had a fortune of $98 million, and her company had more than $1.2 billion in...

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People fail forward to success.

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If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

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Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it goes on flying anyway.

—Mary Kay Ash

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We fall forward to succeed.

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More quotations tagged with “effort”

The world is full of hundreds of beautiful things we can never possibly have time to discover, and there is no time to be unkind or envious or ungenerous, and no sense in enslaving the mind to the trivialities of the moment. For you can be equal to the greatness of life only by marching with it; not by seeking love but by giving it, nor seeking to be understood but learning to understand. And when it is all over, there will be an agony of remorse because one spared the effort and did not make more of that little span of opportunity; and knowing reality at last, who knows but that one will look back with unassuageable regret upon one's pitiful little faith.

—Vivienne de Watteville

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

—George Santayana

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

—Thomas A. Edison

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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before… He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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Love isn’t perfect. It’s hard work and sometimes it’s more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you.

—Jay Crownover in Jet

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History

15 Nov 2014 Added
26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

Previous wording

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.