Work Ethic Quotes

“That’s what building a body of work is all about. It’s about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It’s about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it’s never finished. It’s cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you’re not done. You haven’t even started.” ~ Barack Obama

“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.” ~ Anne Frank

“It always came back to my original belief of having passion. You can’t just generate passion; you’ve really got to have it from the beginning. You need to believe in yourself and in your projects. Very early in your career you need to shoot things that you believe in, things that you really want to shoot [photography]. You need to take risks. Don’t wait for the phone to ring. Success is only going to happen if you are out there really working to make it happen.” ~ Eric Meola

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.” ~ Edward Gibbon

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.” ~ Malcolm Gladwell

“You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you’re down to your reflexes – your training. That’s where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of morning, you’re getting found out now, under the bright lights.” ~ Joe Frazier

“Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: hit the line hard.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren’t, is the willingness to work very very hard.” ~ Helen Gurley Brown

“People who never do anything more than they get paid for never get paid for any more than they do.” ~ Albert Hubbard

“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” ~ David Bly

“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.” ~ Walter Cronkite

“It’s usually the last ounce of effort that tips the scales of success.” ~ Rick Beneteau

“Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.” ~ Mary Lou Retton

“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.” ~ Alan Schoenfeld

“If a man works hard, the land will not be lazy.” ~ Chinese Proverb

“Success isn’t something you chase. It’s something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it’ll come when you least expect it.” ~ Michael Jordan

“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” ~ Michelangelo