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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

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