Work
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- A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.
- A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job
- A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
- A farm is not a place for growing corn, it is a place for growing character, and a man has no character except that which is developed by his life and thought.
- A good many people are complaining all the time about themselves, and crying out, "My leanness! my leanness!" when they ought rather to say, "My laziness! my laziness!"
- A good solid bit of work lasts.
- A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
- A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
- A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
- A man perfects himself by work much more than by reading.
- A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.Cesare PaveseCommonly attributed
- A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man of business.
- A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
- A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
- A man's labors must pass like the sunrises and sunsets of the world. The next thing, not the last, must be his care.George MacDonaldCommonly attributed
- A pint of effort is worth a gallon of excuses.
- A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself for the group, for the good of the group — that’s teamwork.John WoodenCommonly attributed
- A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
- A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
- A strong work ethic doesn’t guarantee strong ethics.
- After success, keep working.
- All good things can be achieved only with effort.
- All happiness depends on courage and work.
- All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong.
- All successful employers of labor are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.
- All that time is lost which might be better employed.
- All the beautiful rewards of life come by indirection, and are the incidental results of simply doing our work up to our highest and best.
- All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it. Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
- All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble ... A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.
- Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.Anne LamottCommonly attributed
- Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.
- Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
- An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
- An honest day's work well performed is not a bad sort of prayer.
- An idler is a watch that wants both hands.
- As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky.
- As much as talent counts, effort counts twice.
- As pride is sometimes hid under humility, idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry.
- As work is our life, show me what you can do, and I will show you what you are.