Hard Work Quotes - Page 38

• Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.

  Colonel Sanders

  World, Vitamins, Beats

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• She works hard for the money so you better treat her right.

  Donna Summer

  Express Yourself, Treats, Hard

  Song: She Works Hard For Her The Money

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• Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did not matter, or even your intuition. You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work.

  Michael Crichton

  Science, Preparation, Luck

  Michael Crichton (2012). “The Andromeda Strain”, p.184, Vintage

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• Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Work, Bmw, Serendipity

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• Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Opportunity, Odds, Cities

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.209, Random House

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• They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Cancer, Smoking, Might

  "The Second Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1966.

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• To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.

  Carl Sandburg

  Effort, Would Be, Hell

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hard work is not the path to Well- Being. Feeling good is the path to Well-Being. You don't create through action; you create through vibration. And then, your vibration calls action from you.

  Esther Hicks

  Positive, Feel Good, Feelings

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• Suppose you were to come upon someone in the woods working feverishly to saw down a tree.
  "What are you doing?" you ask.
  "Can't you see?" comes the impatient reply. "I'm sawing down this tree."
  "You look exhausted!" you exclaim. "How long have you been at it?"
  "Over five hours," he returns, "and I'm beat! This is hard work."
  'Well, why don't you take a break for a few minutes and sharpen that saw?" you inquire. "I'm sure it would go a lot faster."
  "I don't have time to sharpen the saw," the man says emphatically. "I'm too busy sawing!"

  Stephen Covey

  Men, Long, Tree

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.363, Mango Media Inc.

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• Rich people work hard and believe it's perfectly appropriate to be well rewarded for their efforts and the value they provide for others. Poor people work hard, but due to their feelings of unworthiness, they believe that it is inappropriate for them to be well rewarded for their efforts and the value they provide.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Believe, People

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Jul 25, 2011

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• The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters. And that's beginning to happen. More than six decades of hard work for American liberty beginning with the Old Right opposition to the Roosevelt Revolution and continuing with the Mises Institute, is beginning to bear fruit.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Law, Forever, Liberty

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• Hard-working immigrant workers in this country deserve a real path to citizenship as a part of comprehensive immigration reform...We will continue to work with the immigrant rights community and our allies in Congress to devise a truly comprehensive model that places immigrant and workers' rights at the head of the line.

  John Sweeney

  Country, Real, Rights

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• It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

  Boris Johnson

  Promise, Easy, Hard

  "Boris Johnson admits he has fallen short on election promises" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2012.

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• The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Land, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.161, Fordham Univ Press

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Work, Numbers

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.238, Cambridge University Press

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• It will not always be summer: build barns.

  Hesiod

  Summer, Garden, July

  Hesiod (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Hesiod (Illustrated)”, p.49, Delphi Classics

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• The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, World, Want

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.236, Cambridge University Press

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• I am always for the man who wishes to work.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Men, Wish

  Abraham Lincoln (2013). “Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Years, People

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.157, Library of America

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• In the contest between talent and hard work as to which is the more important element of success, there's no comparison. A mediocre talent with lots of hard work will go further than a stellar talent who coasts.

  David Joyner

  Sports, Important, Elements

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• Rather than put ourselves down continually, we must work hard to concentrate on our positives, focusing on that which makes us unique and likable. We all have things that we would change if we could. Even people who we think have it all, don't. Nobody has it all because no one is perfect. We all realize this and yet continue to criticize and insult ourselves. Now is the time to stop this nonsense! Change what you can change and accept the rest as a necessary part of your own unique humanity. Make peace with who you are.

  Douglas Kelley

  Monday, Unique, Thinking

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• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Work, Winter

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.437, Wildside Press LLC

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• Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labour rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of it's just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Fall, Class

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.412, Wildside Press LLC

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• Work, work, work, is the main thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Labor

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.178, Fordham Univ Press

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• And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  World, Want, Strikes

  Speech, Hartford, Conn., 5 Mar. 1860

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