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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.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013
Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty. Iit is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
George Washington1732–1799The writings of George Washington, American Stationers Co., 1836, p. 301
It’s a job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish.
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Jacob Riis1849–1914James Clear’s Atomic Habits as attributed to Riis in the San Antonio Spurs locker room
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
George S. Patton1885–1945
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790“Father Abraham’s Speech,” preface to: “Poor Richard Improved, 1758,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed 27 May 2020. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 7, October 1, 1756 through March 31, 1758, ed. Leonard W. Labaree.
If you don’t know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues’ initials on ‘em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
Malcolm Forbes1919–1990
The secret of getting things done is to act!
Dante Alighieri1265–1321
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915Heart-to-Heart Talks with Philistines by the Pastor of His Flock, The Philistine magazine, May 1913
The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
The beginning is the most important part of any work.
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic, 377aIn context