Success is dependent on effort.

Quote by Sophocles

Topics: Effort Quotes, Success Quotes

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

A lie never lives to be old.

A lie never lives to be old.

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but...

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but...

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source...

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source...

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still...

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still...

A short saying oft contains much wisdom

A short saying oft contains much wisdom

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is...

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is...

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of...

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of...

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by...

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by...

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has...

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has...