Work Quotes - Page 50

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it - not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

Having guts always works out for me.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.

I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.

Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?

If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

There will always be people who challenge the idea that you belong, but it's important to work hard, to focus on yourself, and prove that you belong in this space of high-level athletics.

There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

Finally, it was about how people treat one another. It was about human dignity. We forced the employers to treat us as equals, to sit down and talk to us about the work we do, how we do it, and what we get paid for it. And I believe that the principles for which we fought in 1934 are still true and still useful. Whether your job is pushing a four-wheeler, or programming a computer, I don't know of any way for working people to win basic economic justice and dignity except by being organized into a solid, democratic union.

It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work'

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society.

As soon as you hear a fighter say, "I'm working smarter, not harder," you always want to bet against that guy. That mentality does not work. You have to work hard. And sometimes that means you are going to work too hard. You are going to decline. You are going to tear down your body and your muscle fibers. You are going to get sick.

If i will start all over again I would chose network marketing.

I didn't get out of coaching to get back into it. This is my next challenge and I'm planning to work hard at it.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.