Charles Kingsley Quotes

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.

To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you know that it's not life and death. Take what you're given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.

I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober

Being hardworking is the best thing you can show children.

My parents taught me not to complain, to always go forward. They taught me to always finish what I had on my plate. It seems ridiculous but these are little things that in the end make you stronger.

That is how I have been brought up - to never give up, never take anything for granted.

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.

Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

Work hard, no matter how much recognition you get.

Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

My parents taught me that work ethic is one of the most important keys in life, and I believe it.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

If you work hard and you do your best, you can do anything.

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.