2,968 Quotes About Hard-work

I have found that great people do have in common. . .an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have gerat determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.

Nobody is born as a champion. You have to earn it through hard work. Get started!

Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous...

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.