“Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.”
Source: America and the World War
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“Plough deep while sluggards sleep.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
“All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.”
“If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.”
“I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week.”
“I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.”
Source: Addresses, State Papers and Letters
“If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.”
“Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.”
“As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.”
Source: Lincoln on Democracy
Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches
Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches
“I am always for the man who wishes to work.”
Source: Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45
Source: Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life
“Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.”
Source: The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“Work, work, work, is the main thing.”
Source: Lincoln on Democracy
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
Source: Lincoln on Democracy
“Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46
“All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.”
Source: The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected from the Works of John Ruskin...
“You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.”
Source: Yanni in Words
“It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.”