Success is not something to wait for, it is something to…

“Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

About This Quote

This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation.

Success requires active effort rather than passive waiting.

In simple terms: Work creates success.

Key Takeaway

Take initiative.

Themes

effort achievement proactivity

Mood

determined optimistic

Type

motivational inspirational

When to use this quote

career advancement
entrepreneurship
personal projects
skill development

Key Concepts

goal setting self‑discipline perseverance

Questions to Reflect On

What actions can you start today?
How do you handle setbacks?

A Different Perspective

Success may still be hindered by external obstacles.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

More by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Endymion The rising moon has hid the stars; Her level rays, like golden bars, Lie on the landscape green, With shadows brown between.…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Thus dwelt together in love these simple Acadian farmers,— Dwelt in the love of God and of man. Alike were they free from Fear,…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All things come round to him who will but wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain,…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind,…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Books are sepulchres of thought.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Explore all 755 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotes

More Classroom quotes

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the…

H. Rap Brown

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

Juan Cole

The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private…

Jonathan Kozol

I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking to journalism…

Jim Edgar

If the professor doesn't show up to class in the first 15 minutes, you get to leave. Somebody make that a law, please.

Anonymous

Emotions are classes in the Earth school. Some classes are about fear, and some are about love. The Universe is your tutor, and your…

Gary Zukav

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

Socrates

It is not the responsibility of the enlightened teacher to bring the student to enlightenment. That may be true in the classroom, but in…

Frederick Lenz

I'm going to insist that we've got decent funding, enough teachers, and computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set…

Barack Obama

In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.

Weili Dai

Let students use technologies in the classroom.

Weili Dai

Teacher:The test is very easy. Me:Sure it is bitch, you already know the answers.

Anonymous

At school, I risk my phone's life to text you.

Anonymous

Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson…

Bill Watterson

Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of…

David Attenborough

Browse all 834 Classroom quotes

Success is not something to wait for, it is something to…

About This Quote

Related quotes

More by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

More Classroom quotes