Work
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- Nothing is particularly hard if you subdivide it into small jobs.
- Nothing will work unless you do.
- Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.
- Obsess to find ways to win. Work ethic separates the great from the good.
- Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
- Of all pleasures, the fruit of labour is the sweetest.
- Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
- One monster there is in this world: the idle man.
- One of the greatest mysteries in the world is the success that lies in conscientious work.
- One principal reason why men are so often useless is, that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
- Only engage and then the mind grows heated; Begin and then the work will be completed.
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Our characters are the result of our conduct.AristotleSourced
- Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.Eric HofferSourced
- People don't have to believe in you for you to succeed. Just work hard, when you succeed, they will believe.
- People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.
- People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
- Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Neglect nothing; the most trivial action may be performed to God.
- Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
- Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Pleasure soon exhausts us and itself also; but endeavor never does.
- Plough deep while sluggards sleep.Benjamin FranklinSourced
- Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
- Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- Properly thou hast no other knowledge but what thou hast got by working.
- Provide more service than what you get paid for
- Put in 5% more effort than "there's only so much I can do" and you'll be way ahead of the game.
- Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor; and so shall thy labor sweeten thy rest.
- Put yourself close to your work, bear hard upon it, stay by it, and get it done.
- Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.
- Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. There must be the will to produce a superior thing.
- Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
- Rest at the end, not at the middle.
- Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.
- Resting is not a waste of time. It’s an investment in well-being. Relaxing is not a sign of laziness. It’s a source of energy.
- See! without labour nothing prospers well.
- Set it down as a fact to which there are no exceptions, that we must labor for all that we have, and that nothing is worth possessing, or offering to others, which costs us nothing.
- Shun idleness, it is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.