"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there."
-- Indira Gandhi
"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."
-- Jerome K. Jerome
"Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire."
-- Arab Proverb
"The mark of a Champion, in any endeavor, is their pride in preparing for their competition. For the businessman, as well as the athlete, it's reading the right books, listening to the right tapes/CDs, attending the right seminars and choosing the right mentors and coaches. Champions are built, not born. There is no off season for someone on the road to being a champion. There is only preparation and competition."
-- Greg Werner
"What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort."
-- Orison Swett Marden
"The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense."
-- Thomas Edison
"I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do."
-- Harry S. Truman
"The secret is this: strength lies solely in tenacity."
-- Louis Pasteur
It is counter-productive to put your best foot forward while dragging the other.
If you wear out the seat of your pants before your shoes, perhaps you are working the wrong end.
Although we cannot do everything at once, we can do something at once.
"I will prepare, and someday my chance will come."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted."
-- Catherine O'Hara
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
-- Goethe
"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company."
-- Jeremy Collier
Faith makes things possible, not easy.
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
-- Helen Keller
"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment."
-- Robert Benchley
"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won't."
-- Bruce Jenner
"Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points."
-- Knute Rockne
"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
-- Eric Hoffer
"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."
-- Thomas Bennett
The choicest laurel wreaths are the hardest won.
"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."
-- Og Mandino
"When you're not practicing, remember, someone, somewhere, is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win."
-- Ed Macauley
"Look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
-- Jacob A. Riis
"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
-- Robert Frost
"Let him that would move the world, first move himself."
-- Socrates
"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny, but what we put into it is ours."
-- Dag Hammarskiold
"I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it."
-- William Hazlitt
"Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished."
-- Luisa Sigea
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Understand the difference between being at work and working.
"Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice."
-- Henry Ford
"Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.'"
-- Dan Parker
"Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done."
-- Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool.
"Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal."
-- Elbert Hubbard
"The harder I practice, the luckier I get."
-- Gary Player
"I have nothing to offer but toil, sweat, tears, and blood."
-- Winston Churchill
"No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind."
-- Napoleon Hill
"People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it."
-- Howard Newton
"When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen."
-- Arland Gilbert
"There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."
-- Wayne Dyer
"Anything in life worth having is worth working for."
-- Andrew Carnegie
"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."
-- John Burroughs
"What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."
-- Samuel Johnson
"Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there."
-- Marcus Washling
"Diamonds are just little chunks of coal that stuck to their job."
-- 'The Old Farmer's Almanac'
"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results."
-- Napoleon Hill
"Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work."
-- Booker T. Washington
"Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top."
-- J.C. Penney
"It takes no talent to hustle."
-- Hans Schmidt
"Lack of confidence is born from a lack of preparation."
-- Shannon Wilburn
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