Work
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- Ask yourself every morning, ‘how can I increase my service today?’
- Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.
- At the working-man's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter; nor will the bailiff or the constable enter; for industry pays debts as despair increaseth them.
- Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.Bette DavisSourced
- Be humble, hungry and the hardest worker in the room.
- Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
- Begin while others are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing.
- Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.Thomas EdisonSourced
- Being busy is cheap, focus is expensive.
- Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
- Better to wear out than to rust out.Richard CumberlandSourced
- Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.
- Blessed is the man who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. Know thy work, and do it; and work at it like Hercules. One monster there is in the world, the idle man.Thomas CarlyleCommonly attributed
- Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.
- Business has only two basic functions: marketing and innovation.
- Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's "just a job."
- Business is not a matter of machinery; it is not a great granite building; it is not iron, steel and rock; it is the human force that is in it; it is the man.
- Busyness doesn’t produce high value.
- Carry on every enterprise as if all depended on the success of it.
- Chase your passion, not your pension.
- Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
- Confidence is what happens when you’ve done the hard work that entitles you to succeed.
- Constant dropping wears away stones; and by diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable; and little strokes fell great oaks.
- Despatch is the soul of business.
- Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry.
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and indolence, its opposite, never yet attained the object of an honest ambition.
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness — its opposite — never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.Miguel de CervantesSourced
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
- Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
- Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, He asks of thee works first and words after.
- Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
- Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
- Do so much work it would be unreasonable that you fail.
- Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
- Do what you love and the money will follow.
- Do your work, respecting the excellence of the work, and not its acceptableness.
- Do your work with a whole heart and you will succeed—there is so little competition!
- Doing nothing is harmless, but being busy doing nothing is not.
- Doing things is not the same as getting things done.
- Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.