Quotes about Labor & Working hard

My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Making money isn't hard in itself. What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

If A is success in life, then A=x+y+z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.

Barriers and obstacles are stairs that we take to go up.

Life is too short to work so hard.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening - everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that'.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

'Difficulty' is the name of an ancient tool that was created to define who we are.

Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave.

There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

It's important to have balance in your life between work and play.

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Just had a good talk with God. Told me if we want something - work for it and he'll meet us halfway.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

I don't live to work; I work to live.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

I enjoy hard work; I love setting goals and achieving them.

I've worked very hard, but my life's always been fun.

Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

History is earned. You win the day, and then you win the day after, and you do the same thing every day until you're dead. And you're remembered not for the winning, but because you never lost.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.