hard-work Quotes

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.