Work
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- There is but one method of success, and that is hard labor; and a man who will not pay that price for distinction had better at once dedicate himself to the pursuit of the fox.
- There is no attaining eminence without both, and where they unite there is the greatest eminence. Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. Work is the price which is paid for reputation. What costs little is little worth.
- There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.
- There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from want of work.
- There is no "good enough" that's short Of what you can do and you ought. The flaw which may escape the eye And temporarily get by, Shall weaken underneath the strain And wreck the ship or car or train, For this is true of men and stuff-- Only the best is "good enough."
- There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
- There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.
- There is no short cut. For anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice — no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
- There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
- There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning.
- There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.
- There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.
- There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
- There's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?Jim CarreySourced
- There’s no substitute for hard work.
- There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.
- There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
- Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
- Think of ease, but work on.
- Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.
- Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?
- Three rules for a career: Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself. Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire. Work only with people you enjoy.
- Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.Mark TwainSourced
- To do a certain amount of useful work every day, and not trouble about either the past or the future, is the highest wisdom.
- To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.Bette DavisSourced
- To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals — this alone is worth the struggle.
- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
- To prove yourself able to rastle a big job, get busy and take care of a little one.
- Today, do just a little bit more. Turn going the extra mile into a habit - it is what lifts most successful people above the crowd.
- Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.
- Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
- Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.
- Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
- Trifles make perfection, but perfection itself is no trifle.
- Troubles spring from idleness, and grievous toils from needless ease.
- Underpromise; overdeliver.
- Understand there is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. You must be willing to pay the price.
- Understand this first, last and always: The world wants the best thing. It wants your best.
- Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.
- Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.