Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Nothing is work unless you’d rather be doing something else.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping? I’m working.
Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
Quality is pride of workmanship.
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
The harder you work… and visualize something, the luckier you get.
Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.
We work to become, not to acquire.
I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.
