Work Hard Philosophy

The days you work are the best days. - Georgia O'Keeffe

Don't hope for success. Work for it. - Unknown

Never send a human to do a machine's job. - Hugo Weaving

Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso

If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it. - Unknown

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now. - Steven Wright

With his work, as with a glove, a man feels the universe. - Tomas Transtromer

Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants. - Geraldo Rivera

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. - Cyril Northcote Parkinson

The key to success? Work hard, stay focused and marry a Kennedy. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Do not underestimate your abilities. That is your boss's job. - Unknown

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you. - Stephen Covey

Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die. - Joe Hill

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. - Calvin Coolidge

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. - Joseph Campbell

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. - Peter F Drucker

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. - Henry Drummond

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. - Ann Landers

The best leaders incentivize, inspire and empower their teams to be creative and innovative. - Michael Bloomberg

There's nothing you've ever been successful at that you didn't work on every day. - Will Smith

Having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father. - Nick Lachey

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love. - Monique Roffey

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired, and get paid just enough money not to quite. - George Carlin

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence. - William Glasser

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears but by diligent hard work, he overcame them. - James Reston

Too often, sales reps simply regurgitate their presentations and expect to land the sale. It doesn't work. - Harvey Mackay

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test. - Mark Zuckerberg

One machine can do the work of a hundred ordinary men, but no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard

What's the first excellence in a lawyer? Tautology. What's the second? Tautology. What's the third? Tautology. - Richard Steele

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase. - Leo Tolstoy

People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work. - Marilyn Suttle

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world, so do something you like. - Mark Zuckerberg

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny. - Sam Donaldson

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. - Doug Larson

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time. - Toni Morrison