Take Note of These Quotes About: Hard Work

When I grow weary of putting in long hours for what seems to be little reward, I like to think on these quotes to help re-focus my thoughts on the meaning and value of hard work. Sometimes we all lose track of the inherent virtue of hard work in the hustle and bustle of our busy lifes. I hope you find these quotes as helpful as I.

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and US President

There is no substitute for hard work. - Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, scientist, and businessman

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right'. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. - Napoleon Hill, American author

I learned the value of hard work by working hard. - Margaret M. Fitzpatrick

If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work. - Steve Pavlina, American self-help author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, scientist, and businessman

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. - Unknown

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. - Marvin Phillips

Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you will be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrow's; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. - Benjamin Franklin, US Founding Father, Philosopher and inventor

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. - Garth Henrichs

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Vince Lombardi, Legendary NFL Coach

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln, Assasinated US Presdient

If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. - Martin Luther King, Jr., American clergyman, activist, and civil rights leader

Plough deep while sluggards sleep. - Benjamin Franklin, US Founding Father, Philosopher and inventor

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. ~Joseph Heller, American novelist and playwright in Catch-22

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do. - Elbert Hubbard, American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher.

You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might. - Henry David Thoreau, American author, poet, abolitionist and naturalist

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. - Alexander Graham Bell, American scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. - Saint Augustine