Work
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- Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
- Many a man acquires a fortune by doing his business thoroughly, while his neighbour remains poor for life, because he only half does it. Ambition, energy, industry, perseverance, are indispensable requisites for success in business.
- Many are idly busy. Domitian was busy, but then it was catching flies.
- Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
- Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
- Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labour in it, but they labour in it because they excel.
- Men seldom die of hard work; activity is God's medicine. The highest genius is willingness and ability to do hard work. Any other conception of genius makes it a doubtful, if not a dangerous possession.
- Method is the very hinge of business; and there is no method without punctuality.
- Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.
- My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.Indira GandhiSourced
- My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
- National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
- Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
- Never mind where you work; let your care be for the work itself.
- No abilities, however splendid, can command success without intense labor and persevering application.
- No amount of work is sufficient to weary me.
- No job is ugly, unless it's made ugly by the person doing it.Penelope DeltaSourced
- No man e’er was glorious, who was not laborious.
- No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
- No man is born into this world whose work is not born with him; there is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will; and blessed are the horny hands of toil.
- No man on earth is so happy as the man who loves his work and goes home at night with a contented heart because of a good day’s work well done.
- No matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.
- No one ever changed the world, created a new industry, or amassed a fortune due to their fast email response time.
- No one will dispute me when I say that the only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
- No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
- No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
- No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
- No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity
- Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
- Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
- None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
- Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing; but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
- Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work, into which the whole heart is put, and which, in both temporal and spiritual affairs, is the true miracle worker.
- Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns.
- Not what I Have, but what I Do is my Kingdom.
- Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.
- Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life: nothing is great or desirable, if it is off from that.
- Nothing is denied to well-directed labor; nothing is ever to be attained without it.Sir Joshua ReynoldsCommonly attributed
- Nothing is given. Everything is earned.
- Nothing is impossible to industry.Periander of CorinthCommonly attributed