Work
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- Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck.
- Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.Bruce LeeSourced
- Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.
- Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.
- We are immortal till our work is done.
- We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.
- We have the responsibility to put our gifts to work.
- We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
- We must think loftily, and we must also work hard.
- We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.
- We will move faster if we hurry less.Spencer W. KimballSourced
- What genius beholds with a flash of the eye, industry gains by a succession of blows. Men see the result, and care not for the process.
- What men want is not talent, it is purpose—in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour.
- What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.
- Whatever the work is, do it well – not for the boss, but for yourself.
- Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.
- Whatever you do, do with all your might.
- Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
- When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.George Bernard ShawSourced
- When industry builds upon nature, we may expect pyramids.
- When it comes to how we fare in the marathon of life, effort counts tremendously.
- When we know what we want, however, and proceed to work for it with all the power and ability that is in us, we may rest assured that we will get it.
- When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
- When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.
- When you learn to look upon work as a joy and not a curse, then you are beginning to see your way out of the grinding process.
- When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
- When you work, work hard. When you’re done, be done.
- When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
- When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.
- Whether it be for life or death, do your own work well.
- Whoever can make two ears of corn or two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
- Whoever gives me credit for anything besides being a plodder will do too much. I can plod; I can persevere in any difficult pursuit; and to that I owe everything.
- With "good enough" the shirkers stop In every factory and shop; With "good enough" the failures rest And lose to men who give their best; With "good enough" the car breaks down And men fall short of high renown. My son, remember and be wise, In "good enough" disaster lies.
- Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress and without conflict, no victory.
- Without great solitude no serious work is possible.
- Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them every thing.
- Work as if you own the company and soon you just might.
- Work as long as there is work and you have strength to do it; and count it a blessing, every day, that God gives you something to do.
- Work at it, if necessary, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.