Work Quotes - Page 40

I`ve had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by no means overlooking the rough and rocky years I`ve lived through. But I was not brought up thinking life would be easy. I always expected to work hard for my money and to get nothing I did not earn. And the bad years, it seems to me, were so few that only a dyed-in-the-wool grouch who enjoys feeling sorry for himself would complain.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room. You enter its room with bravura, holding a chair at the thing and shouting, "Simba!

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...

I never practice; I always play.

Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years.

There is no quick easy way to the body you want... commit yourself now to your workout and get started.

Work hard, do things the right way, and things will go your way.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

Rule by the statist elite is not benign or simply a matter of who happens to be in office: it is rule by a growing army of leeches and parasites battening off the income and wealth of hard-working Americans, destroying their property, corrupting their customs and institutions, sneering at their religion.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.

There is no place for little minds in a great work

Explore your limits and get to know yourself. You'll never feel more real than after the hardest workout, the longest run, the toughest week, or the best race of your life. Constantly make your own standards tougher.

Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.

My three keys to success: One, work hard. Two, be your own person. And three, have a passion for what you're doing.

To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.