“If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.”

“In every disadvantage that a woman suffers at the hands of a man, there is inevitably, in what concerns the man, an element of cowardice. When I say "inevitably," I mean that this is what the woman sees in it.”

Henry James book Confidence

“Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.”

Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister

“Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.”

Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005) Feminist writer

“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.”

Samuel Johnson The Rambler

“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.”

James Allen (1864–1912) British philosophical writer

“The leader of the enterprise a woman.”
Dux femina facti.

Virgil book Aeneid

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”

Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general

“Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.”

Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement

“No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator