Work Quotes - Page 2

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Kathleen Winsor

Elbow grease is the best polish.

English Proverb

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.

Meridel Le Sueur

Ideally couples need three lives one for him one for her and one for them together.

Jacqueline Bisset

Exchange is creation.

Muriel Rukeyser

What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic conquering spirit we get things done.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly quietly without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath you would stop and take a breath you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.

Elizabeth Prentiss

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Harry S. Truman

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

Madeleine Albright

People should tell their children what life is all about-it's about work.

Marriage ain't easy but nothing that's worth much ever is.

I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

Katharine Hepburn

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating rejuvenating exciting and satisfying.

Käthe Kollwitz

I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty I woke and found that life was Duty.

Ellen Sturgis Hooper

Passion is never enough neither is skill.

It's not the having it's the getting.

Elizabeth Taylor

A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done.

Anonymous

Be strong! We are not here to play to dream to drift We have hard work to do and loads to lift Shun not the struggle-face it 'tis God's gift.

Maltbie D. Babcock

It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done and do it coolly.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

William Feather

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.

Diligence is the mother of good luck and God gives all things to industry.

Benjamin Franklin

To industry nothing is impossible.

I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

Helena Rubinstein

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Leonardo da Vinci

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.

I realized that with hard work the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do. I learned that at a young age.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

Oliver Goldsmith

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but as he was given to saying it straightened out one's thoughts.

Mary Ellen Chase

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.

William F. Buckley

The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.

Busy people are never busybodies.

Ethel Watts Mumford

What a man sows that shall he and his relations reap.

Clarissa Graves

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

I have worked all my life wanted to work all my life needed to work all my life.

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life and also a personal life complete with noncompetitive leisure has never really taken hold.

There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Whether we call it a job or a career work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity and let my efforts be known by their results.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

There is a time for work. And a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Success is dependent on effort.

Sophocles

Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

Anonymous

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

David Bly

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

Charles O. Finley

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results it produces no results. Work continuous work and hard work is the only way to accomplish results that last.

If a man wakes up famous he hasn't been sleeping.

If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very very hard.

Helen Gurley Brown

You can have unbelievable intelligence you can have connections you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end hard work is the true enduring characteristic of successful people.

In all human affairs there are efforts there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

James Lane Allen

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