Work
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- I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.
- I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
- I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
- I just work on the principle that of all the virtues gratitude (next to honesty) is the greatest, and that has helped me on numerous occasions in my life.
- I know no such thing as genius; it is nothing but labor and diligence.
- I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply, not into the market, not into opinion, not into patronage.
- I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun.
- I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident.
- I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear. So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you’re capable of doing and what you’re not.
- I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.
- I never knew a man in all my life who was troubled with the BLUES who had plenty of work to do and did it.
- I never viewed myself as particularly talented. Where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping, I’m working.
- I see an entrepreneur as the chief designer of a business that works better than any other.
- I set another goal … a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I approached everything step by step.Michael JordanSourced
- I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
- I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well.
- Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
- Idleness is the burial of a living man.
- If a man is fit to go higher, he will show it by being faithful where he is.
- If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
- If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.
- If I am anything, which I much doubt, I made myself so merely by labour.
- If I cannot do great things. I can do small things in a great way.
- If I love you I will surely work for you—in this way I reveal my love.
- If it isn't your job to do it, perhaps it is your opportunity
- If little labour, little are our gaines: Man's fortunes are according to his paines.Robert HerrickSourced
- If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.
- If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
- If there is effort, there is always accomplishment.
- If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- If we grown-ups would only put into our daily tasks the interest and attention that the boy put into his game of marbles, we would "get the marble" oftener than we have been doing.
- If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
- If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
- If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working on it.
- If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
- If you don’t love it, you’re going to fail.
- If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.
- If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
- If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies.
- If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.