Work
“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”
— Calvin Coolidge
“The great weariness comes from work not done.”
— Quote Source
“If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great”
— Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own
“Far and away, the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
— Vince Lombardi
“Let no him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently, and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built .”
— Abraham Lincoln
“If there is no wind, row.”
— Latin Proverb
“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.”
— John Ruskin
“If you cant excel with talent, triumph with effort.”
— Stephen G. Weinbaum
“If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, It wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.”
— Michelangelo
“The Heights by great men reached and kept
were not attained by sudden flight;
But they while their companions slept
were toiling in the night.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
— Victor Hugo
“Hard work spotlights the character of people; some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.”
— Sam Ewing
“The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.”
— John Ruskin
“If you don’t want to work, you have to work to earn enough so that you won’t have to work.”
— Ogden Nash
“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”
— Pearl S. Buck
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
— Richard Bach
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
— Harry Golden
“Unemployment is capitalisms way of getting you to plant a garden.”
— Orson Scott Card
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Wishing is not enough, we must do.”
— J.W. Von Goethe