Work
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- Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
- Get work. Be sure it is better than what you work to get.
- Give a man the sort of work that harmonizes with his nature and the best there is in him will exert itself.
- Give me 100 percent. You can’t make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don’t have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that’s what I want from you right now.
- Give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he will be equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time; he will do it better; he will persevere longer.
- God can speak whatever he will into existence, but man must work into existence whatever good he desires.
- God does not give excellence to men but as the reward of labor.Sir Joshua ReynoldsCommonly attributed
- God gives every bird its nest, but does not throw it into the nest.
- God intends no man to live in this world without working; but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.
- Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
- Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.
- Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
- Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
- Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.
- Hard work breeds self-respect.
- Hard work compounds like interest, and the earlier you do it, the more time you have for the benefits to pay off.
- Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.
- Have a maniacal work ethic. You want to over-prepare so that luck becomes a product of design.
- Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.
- He doeth much that doeth a thing well.
- He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.
- He soon exploded for himself the misleading and comfortable theory of luck: the only lucky people, he found, were those who worked hard.
- He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
- He who wants hard hands must not, at sight of the first blister, fling away the spade, the rake, the broad ax or the hoe; for the blister is a primary condition to the needed hardness.
- He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
- Here was a lesson in economics. And economics is simply the science of business, and business is the science of human service.
- Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
- Honest work is much better than a mansion.Leo TolstoySourced
- Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.
- I always thought that if you want to be the best, you have to work harder than everyone else.
- I am always in haste, but never in a hurry; leisure and I have long taken leave of each other.
- I am certain that there is nothing good, great or desirable which man can possess in this world, that does not come by some kind of labor, either physical or mental, moral or spiritual.
- I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
- I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.Elbert HubbardSourced
- I don’t have talent, so I just get up earlier.
- I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.Theodore RooseveltSourced
- I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
- I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it.
- I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
- I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.