Charles Dickens Quotes

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.

You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

I always make sure I work hard every day and give everything in the game, in training, and off the pitch, too.

I'm kind of a grinder.

My approach to parenting is the same as my approach to life: it's all about putting in the hours and working hard.

I will do my best all the time.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.

If you're passionate about something, you believe in it, then you have to be consistent. And you have to put in the hard work that it takes to be successful.

One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

In order to achieve great things in your life, you have to be consistent in what you are doing.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

I'm very dedicated to the things I do.

Diligence is not easy, but we can't reach our goals without it.

A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.

Love is commitment; love is a relationship that never gives up.

But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.

Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?