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Work Ethic Quotes and Sayings |
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan
Margaret Thatcher
Hard work is much more important than talent.
Carlo Rotella
One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
Wernher Von Braun
What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.
Jason Fried (Rework)
It's not about what you have to do, its what you need to do.
Habeeb Akande
Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.
Donald Trump
Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.
Kale Burton
I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you're not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.
Brandon Sanderson
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.
Malcolm Gladwell
Good is the enemy of great.
Jim Collins
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.
Tim Burton
Praying without working is faith inaction.
Saji Ijiyemi
Respect can only be given to those who have earned it by working for it.
Habeeb Akande
Everything yields to diligence.
Thomas Jefferson
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
Raymond Carver
A bad hair day is not a valid excuse for calling in sick.
Tadahiko Nagao
People who are winning at working don't ignore the problems they encounter.
Nan S. Rusell
Our shortcomings drive us, motivate us – to work harder or realize another purpose/talent.
Aaron B. Powell
If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires
Malcolm Gladwell
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
Muhammad Ali
It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the day.
Jeannette Walls
My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.
Anthony Kiedis
You always need to work hard. You always need to be willing to work hard. Not everything will be hard, but you should, at the very least, be willing to work hard.
Tom Giaquinto
Pain is weakness leaving the body.
US Marine Corps
The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.
Orrin Woodward
Life will be better when we start to enjoy it
Putu Satria Jaya Guna
I’ve always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got.
Alan Bond
If you are not working towards something, your life will end with nothing.
Habeeb Akande
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
Wayne Gretzky
They founded a society based not upon currency and commodities but on the elementary notion that if you failed to raise enough to eat, you would go hungry.
Shirley Abbott