Quotes on Hard Work

Achievement is not always success while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
-Orison Swett Marden

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
-Liane Cordes

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
-Henry Van Dyke

Thank God, I have my work, but instead of earning money by it, I need money to be able to work; that is the difficulty. I think there are no signs in my work that indicate that I shall fail. And I am not a person who works slowly or tamely. Drawing becomes a passion with me, and I throw myself into it more and more. I do not have great plans for the future; if for a moment I feel rising within me the desire for a life without care, for prosperity, each time I go fondly back to the trouble and the cares, to a life full of hardship, and think: It is better so; I learn more from it, and make progress. This is not the road on which one perishes. I only hope the trouble and the cares will not become unbearable, and I have confidence I shall succeed in earning enough to keep myself, not in luxury, but as one who eats his bread in the sweat of his brow.
-Vincent Van Gogh

"One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try"
-Aristotle

"Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do"
-Elbert Hubbard

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
-Russell C. Taylor

"You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour"
-Jim Rohn

"Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines"
-Gary Sinise

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort"
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best"
-Theodore I. Rubin

"Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst is not to try"
-Anonymous

"For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward"
-Jim Rohn

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant"
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow"
-Doug Firebaugh

"Every job is a self portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence"
-Unknown Author