Work
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- The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.
- The rewards of life depend upon diligence; and the mechanic that would perfect his work, must first sharpen his tools.
- The fact is nothing comes; at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.
- The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
- The gods sell everything good for labor.
- The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.
- The harder you work, the luckier you get.
- The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
- The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
- The highest reward that God gives us for good work, is the ability to do better work.Elbert HubbardSourced
- The inner consciousness of work worthily attempted and well done is its own reward.
- The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.
- The magic you are looking for is in the work you’re avoiding.
- The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.
- The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
- The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.
- The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.
- The man who does not learn to live while he is getting a living is a poorer man after his wealth is won than he was before.
- The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening.
- The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
- The moment you accept God’s ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.
- The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish; for he learns to economise his time.
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.Richard BachSourced
- The more I work, the more I want to work.
- The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
- The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?'
- The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
- The most outstanding gifts can be destroyed by idleness.
- The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
- The most valuable form of mastery isn’t knowledge but the ability to think and work independently.
- The ones who break through tend to have a work ethic to support their dream.
- The only difference between dreams and achievements is hard work.
- The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.
- The only luck that plays any great part in a man's life is that which inheres in a stout heart, a willing hand, and an alert brain.Orison Swett MardenSourced
- The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- The only thing in your control is your effort. That’s all and that’s everything.
- The only thing that I can control is how hard I work.
- The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
- The only thing worse than someone quitting and leaving is someone quitting and staying.
- The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.