The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.
I’m not as talented as others, but I have a determination and will that enable me to work a lot harder than anyone else.
I just aspire to be the best I can be. I want to work hard and set one goal at a time for myself.
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
The secret was to just be cool, stay in God’s graces, and work it out.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
Good things happen to those who hustle.
Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.
Everyone’s dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.
Laziness in my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people!
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability – the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy – to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.
For me, I know that people always expect me to be perfect, so when I’m not perfect, it’s really frustrating. I’m really hard on myself and want things to work out right away.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’
I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don’t speak it fluently. I’m ashamed of that.
Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.
Management must manage!
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
I am not an optimist. I’m a very serious possibilist. It’s a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination, and hard work.
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Instead of putting the taxi driver out of a job, blockchain puts Uber out of a job and lets the taxi drivers work with the customer directly.
I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
Each day, millions of police officers do the selfless work of putting their lives on the line to protect civilians, frequently responding to or preventing crises completely with no recognition.
I’ve been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.
A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that’s why they work. The Rainbow Flag is like other flags in that sense: it belongs to the people.
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
I think the best way to get a good night sleep is to work hard throughout the day. If you work hard and, of course, work out.
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.
The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness… but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.
The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.
After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.
I never do anything half-heartedly. I will continue to work hard and play hard and do everything I can to be successful, whatever I do.
I owe my success to all my teammates. It is the result of the team work.
I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.
It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.
If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.
Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but without it you don’t have a chance.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
I work a lot in the slums of Tondo, Manila, and the life there is poor and very sad. And I’ve always taught to myself to look for the beauty of it and look in the beauty of the faces of the children and to be grateful.
I like being the underdog so they don’t expect what’s going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I’m not doing better.
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
Nothing will work unless you do.
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there’s less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.
