“I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.”
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“There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.”
“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”
“Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.”
“The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.”
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
“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.”
“My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.”
“I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.”
“A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.”
“I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.”
“My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.”
“Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”
“I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.”
“Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.”
“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”
“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”
“And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.”
“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.”
“I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.”
“I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.”
“People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.”
“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.”
“One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.”