William Arthur Ward Quotes

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

William Arthur Ward

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• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Knowledge
  • Control
  • Learning

• The victor belongs to the spoils.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Success
  • Victor
  • Spoils

• A lot of people tell me, 'You are from North; how do you manage to get along in the South?' I don't know what to say to them. I've always felt at home here, and by learning to speak Telugu, my connection with the place has gotten that much stronger.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Home
  • Learning

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Age
  • Learning
  • Internet

• Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Today
  • inspirational

• They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Success
  • Me
  • Sad

• Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Time
  • Done
  • Success

• I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Home

• I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Stop
  • Learning
  • Listening

• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Courage
  • inspirational
  • More

• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Success
  • Purpose
  • Achievement

• It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • May
  • Success
  • Poetry

• The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Help
  • Success
  • Small

• Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Book
  • Success
  • Universe

• You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • True
  • Success

• If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Different
  • Success
  • Story

• Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Success
  • Respect
  • Productivity

• I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • World
  • Love
  • Trees

• Even though two and two might look like four, it could be three or five.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Looks
  • Might
  • Three

• I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

  

  Jon Lovitz
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Game

• Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Success
  • Learning
  • inspirational