该句使用了名词性定义结构，用be动词连接主语和表语，简洁有力地揭示了天赋与努力之间的因果关系。
Talent is the reward of long-term effort. (Flaubert)
Genius is a special manifestation of intelligence. (Balzac)
Talent is gold buried in the mine, while ability is the miner who excavates the deposit. (Cai Ping)
Only the educated person is free. (Epictetus)
Talent requires sympathy and needs to be understood. (Dostoevsky)
Success is the reward of hard work.
Without multiple failures, a single success is hard to achieve.
Failure is the mother of success. It is no higher than the sole of your foot.
Failures teach lessons; successes provide experience.
The secret of success lies in the firmness of purpose. (Disraeli)
The secret of success is to never change the set objective. (Rousseau)
Success is the creation of the inner self. (Ralph M. Ford)
When you are filled with the joy of success, there is no time for decadence. (Frank Meyer)
If you have the courage to begin, you have the spirit to succeed. (David Weisshaupt)
To succeed in an undertaking, one must spend a lifetime. (Leeuwenhoek)
Behind every successful man is a woman who silently supports him.
Difficulties contain victory, and failures nurture success.
When planting pines, one must pack the soil firmly; without firmness, there is no success.
If you are afraid of failure and dare not take a leap, you will never succeed.
Be brave, and things will succeed; be diligent, and happiness will come.
才能是长期努力的报酬。（福楼拜）
天才是智力的特殊表现。（巴尔扎克）
天赋是埋藏在矿里的黄金，才能是挖掘矿藏的矿工。（蔡平）
只有受过教育的人才是自由的。（爱比克泰德）
才华需要同情，需要有人了解。（陀思妥耶夫斯基）
成功是辛勤劳动的报酬。
没有多次失败，难得一次成功。
失败是成功之母。高不过脚底板。
失败得教训，成功获经验。
成功的奥秘在于目标的坚定。（迪斯雷利）
成功的秘诀，在永不改变既定的目的。（卢梭）
成功，是内心的造就。（拉尔夫·M.福特）
你因成功而内心充满喜悦的时候，就没有时间颓废。（弗兰克·迈耶）
如果你具备开始的勇气，就有了成功的豪情。（戴维·维斯考特）
要成功一项事业，必须花掉毕生的时间。（列文虎克）
每一个成功男人背后都有一个默默支持的女人。
困难里包含着胜利，失败里孕育着成功。
栽松要敲得凶(栽后把土踏实)，不凶不成功。
因害怕失败而不敢放手一搏，永远不会成功。
勇敢，事会成功;勤劳，幸福必来。
"I kept striving and never gave up, despite mediocre grades."
"Success requires persistence, endurance, and utmost effort."
"All we can do is look up to and long for the future."
"Many things in life ultimately depend on personal effort; without it, nothing can be gained."
"Only by working harder and starting earlier than others can you taste the sweetness of success."