Quotes About Hard work

A scholar must not only be capable of hard, often totally resultless work - he must actually relish it.

It do seem to me that the life of man is merely a pattern scrawled on Time, with little thought, little care, and no sense of design. Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

If you want a person to help you, convince them that they've already helped you beyond saying. People will work hard to protect their legacy.

What decided him (almost invariably) was a college project in which he had occasion to do some independent research—to find out things for himself. Once he discovered the pleasures of this kind of work, he never turned back. He is completely satisfied with his chosen vocation. . . . He works hard and devotedly in his laboratory, often seven days a week.

The hard work of finding a proving ground sufficiently barren and remote and organizing it fell to a compact, close-cropped Harvard experimental physicist named Kenneth T. Bainbridge.

Sully always maintained that if you had ten guys working on a rock pile, Rub would be the last you'd fire for laziness. Only when you'd fired all the others would you realize that Rub had not yet addressed his first rock.

True success requires sacrifice.

Maybe if he did really well they'd give him some mouldy apples.

Being productive. Ugh. It's such a human concept. It implies you have limited time (LOL) and have to work hard to make something happen (double LOL).

Good luck is a sham. True success requires sacrifice.

Putting on socks is hard work, said Bink. I'm hungry.

People today work as hard, if not harder, than they did thirty years ago. The only difference is the quality of the work they perform. They no longer accomplish anything of value. They only service the machines.

Still, hard work never killed anyone, right? By midday, I decide that whoever coined that phrase never toiled as a nineteenth-century housemaid.

If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.

Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

Philip had always believed that hard work should be rewarded by good food.

I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

I don't believe that hard work equals success. It can, and maybe it should, but I know that it doesn't. There's a very slight relationship between the two.

Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your own smoke with an extra draft of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration

Experience is by industry achieved, and perfected by the swift course of time

Lest too light winningMake the prize light.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.