Will To Work Quotes

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Work is a world apart from jobs. Work is the way you occupy your mind and hand and eye and whole body when they're informed by your imagination.

To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun?

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

Winning the [Nobel] prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.

When people go to work they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.

Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work-their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results it produces no results. Work continuous work and hard work is the only way to accomplish results that last.

If a man wakes up famous he hasn't been sleeping.

If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very very hard.

You can have unbelievable intelligence you can have connections you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end hard work is the true enduring characteristic of successful people.

In all human affairs there are efforts there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

Work alternated with needful rest is the salvation of man or woman.

Neither woman nor man lives by work or love alone.... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.

To industry nothing is impossible.

I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

I realized that with hard work the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do. I learned that at a young age.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but as he was given to saying it straightened out one's thoughts.

What a man sows that shall he and his relations reap.

I have worked all my life wanted to work all my life needed to work all my life.

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life and also a personal life complete with noncompetitive leisure has never really taken hold.

There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Whether we call it a job or a career work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity and let my efforts be known by their results.

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

People should tell their children what life is all about-it's about work.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating rejuvenating exciting and satisfying.

I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty I woke and found that life was Duty.

Passion is never enough neither is skill.

It's not the having it's the getting.

A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done.

It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done and do it coolly.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

There are two kinds of talents man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent you just touch it up once in a while.

With the power of conviction there is no sacrifice.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life time for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain

When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time the distinction between work and play dissolves.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it for it is a faculty of the psyche.

It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

Elbow grease is the best polish.

Ideally couples need three lives one for him one for her and one for them together.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free I was not alone. There were others who felt the same way.

Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand in fact we should have our arms around one another.

Women and men have to fight together to change society-and both will benefit.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.