Work
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- Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
- Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
- Don't mistake activity with achievement.
- Don’t put in average effort and claim that you want exceptional results.
- Don’t spin your wheels trying to get everything done. Focus on getting the right things done instead.
- Don’t tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.
- Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.
- Dreams don't work unless you do.
- Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.
- Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
- Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.
- Effort and hard work construct the bridge that connects your dreams to reality.
- Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.
- Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
- Every human being that works has to know that what they do matters to another human being.
- Every noble activity makes room for itself.
- Every youth, from the king's son downwards, should learn to do something finely and thoroughly with his hand.
- Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.
- Everyone dreams of being a legend until it comes time to do the work that legends do.
- Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
- Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
- Everything is hard. Nothing works the first time. It all feels pointless. That’s when you realize you’re going to have to will it into existence with every ounce of your soul. And that’s when it starts to happen.
- Everything worthwhile is uphill.
- Everything you want is on the far side of hard work.
- Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labour.
- Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
- Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.
- Folks who never do more than their paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.
- For ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
- For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.
- For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.
- Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
- Fundamental things are the knowledge of our work, quality of our work, and the love of our work.
- Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them.
- Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
- Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
- Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
- Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
- Genius makes its observations in shorthand; talent writes them out at length.