526 Quotes About Work-ethic

Getting something done is like digging a well. You can dig a well seventy feet deep, but if you don’t hit water it’s just an abandoned well.

People need self-respect, that self respect must be earned – it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned – and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

Work at things before they’ve begunand establish order before confusion sets in,for a tree you can barely reach aroundgrows from the tiniest rootlet,a nine-tiered towerstarts as a basket of dirt,a thousand-mile journeybegins with a single step.

When people devote themselves to somethingthey always ruin it on the verge of success.Finish with the same care you took in beginningand you’ll avoid ruining things.

Madams Manec's energy, Marie-Lauren is learning, is extraordinary; she burgeons, shoots off stalks, wakes early, works late, concocts basques without a drop of cream, loaves with less than a cup of flour. They clomp together through the narrow streets, Marie-Laure's hand on the back of Madame's apron, following the odors of her stews and cakes; in such moments Madame seems like a great moving wall of rose bushes, thorny and fragrant and crackling with bees.

There are two types of people in life: those who say 'you can't' and those who say 'why not?'.

Do the hard thing when you don't have to, so you can do the easy thing when you do.

Follow your passion? Sure...but for most one needs to follow their passion after work and on weekends.

Tell me again about how it's impossible to do and how it can't be done, then get out of my way and watch me do it.