Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don't speak it fluently. I'm ashamed of that.
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
Work ethic is important because, unlike intelligence, athleticism, charisma, or any other natural attribute, it's a choice.
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.
I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
When you are on the field as a captain, the mind is always working. You cannot relax at any point of time. You are always focussing on what is going to be the next move, what if it doesn't work, what if the situation changes and you have to change your plan.
My beliefs are that good people who work hard get their rewards. There will be struggle at times and hurdles along the way - life throws up all sorts - but in the end, you will prevail if you stick to the right path.
I am always trying to improve and see my weakness and work on it.
It's often been said that you learn more from losing than you do from winning. I think, if you're wise, you learn from both. You learn a lot from a loss. You learn what is it that we're not doing to get to where we want to go. It really gets your attention and it really motivates the work ethic of your team when you're not doing well.
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
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.
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
It has been a long journey, but if you dream and have the ambition and want to work hard, then you can achieve.
Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.
My work is a game, a very serious game.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.
When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me.
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
My favorite thing is when we lift a trophy. Afterward, we can have a picture of us lifting a trophy. And that picture shows a lot of work, a lot of difficulty and a lot of sacrifice together.
I work on the motto that if something's not impossible, there must be a way to do it.
It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.
You see opportunity... Opportunity is like a window: every once in a while, it opens, if you're ready for that opportunity. So be prepared, work hard, and follow your dreams.
If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
Work is much more fun than fun.
I don't live to work; I work to live.
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.