Work Quotes - Page 73

We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to work together for their solution so that your world will be better than ours and the world of your children even better.

It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and made it the envy of the world. In all of our great cities and towns evidence of the faith of our people is found: houses of worship of every denomination are among the oldest structures. While never willing to bow to a tyrant, our forefathers were always willing to get to their knees before God. When catastrophe threatened, they turned to God for deliverance. When the harvest was bountiful the first thought was thanksgiving to God.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn.

One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.

Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.

In the end, the most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love and work hard. I mean, work like there's no tomorrow. Train. Strive. I mean, really train and cultivate your talent to the highest degree. Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive. Use the tools of your trade, if it's books or a floor to dance on or a body of water to swim in. Whatever it is, it's yours.

Do as much homework as you can. Learn everybody's job and don't just settle.

If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.

If you think you're always in control, then you're not going fast enough.

From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.

I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.

There is no substitute for hard work. If you're looking for the easy way, if you're looking for the trick, you might get by for a while, but you will not be developing the talents that lie within you. There is simply no substitute for work.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Collaboration is multiplication.

It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!