Work ethic quotes
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in yo
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. ~Edward H. Harriman
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ~Larry Bird
Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. ~Sidney J. Phillips
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. ~George Bernard Shaw
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ~Swami Sivananda
There’s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway. ~Mark Burnett
Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ~Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. ~Will Rogers
Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains. ~Jane Ellice Hopkins
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ~Emile Zola
Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough. ~Sophia Loren
Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb