Work
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- The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
- The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle.
- The only way to get a big place is to show that you are not ashamed to fill a little one.
- The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.
- The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.Patrick DixonSourced
- The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
- The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
- The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.
- The real men of genius were resolute workers, not idle dreamers.
- The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
- The reward for all good work is not rest, but more work, and harder work.
- The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.Knute RockneSourced
- The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
- The secret of joy in work is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
- The seeds of greatness are planted in the daily grind.
- The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.
- The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
- The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
- The true laborer is recompensed by his labor, not by his employer.
- The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life...
- The true road to respect is through merit, and if industry accompany merit the path becomes shorter.
- The very essence of all good organisation is that everybody should do her (or his) own work in such a way as to help and not to hinder every one else’s work.
- The virtues, like the body, become strong more by labor than by nourishment.Jean PaulCommonly attributed
- The way to wealth is as plain as the road to market. It depends chiefly on two words,--industry and frugality.
- The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
- The wise prove, and the foolish confess, by their conduct, that a life of employment is the only life worth leading.
- The work of each day would be a pleasure if we would refrain from attempting to perform at the same time the work of to-morrow.
- The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
- The world expects results. Don't tell others about labor pains. Show them the baby.
- The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.Robert FrostSourced
- There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
- There are many ways of being frivolous, only one way of being intellectually great; that is honest labor.
- There are no gains without pains.
- There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
- There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
- There is a price, of patience or labor, that must be paid for the most worthy things.
- There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. In idleness alone is there perpetual despair.