All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
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.
No, I don’t believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.
Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you’re going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.
We are immortal until our work on earth is done.
The three ordinary things that we often don’t pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.
Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
If Botticelli were alive today he’d be working for Vogue.
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.
Sticking to good habits can be hard work, and mistakes are part of the process. Don’t declare failure simply because you messed up or because you’re having trouble reaching your goals. Instead, use your mistakes as opportunities to grow stronger and become better.
You’ve got to put in the work. And you’ve got to play with confidence. You’ve got to believe in yourself.
Here’s the thing – if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, in a kind of historical way, it’s exciting because we will see the actual last president of the United States. It just won’t work after that.
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don’t wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.
I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.
I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me.
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.
The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.
A lot of people mistake habit for hard work. Doing something over and over again is not working hard.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
I’m the daughter of refugees. The immigrant mentality is to work hard, be brave, and never give up in your pursuit of achieving the American dream.
Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
I believe in hard work, not luck factor. The best efforts will reap the best fruits. Nobody can take all the credit. We don’t even talk about the efforts of the director, the writers, other technicians, etc. They all together take a film to another level.
I try to work and enjoy life, and that’s about all.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
I think it’s difficult to say what exactly made me become a successful DJ. It depends on so many different things. If I were given an award, I would thank my family, friends, Tiesto and the great team behind me for all their support and hard work. Without them, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Without labor nothing prospers.
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
I always wanted my partner to be a simple person. She can do what she wants, wear what she wants, work wherever she wants.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren’t aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.
