Joyce Brothers Quotes

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

My parents taught me that in life, you get out what you put in.

You only get back what you are prepared to put in.

I'm a firm believer that you get back what you put in.

In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!

If you work, you prosper. If you don’t, you don’t.

I'm a true believer that you get out of something what you put into it.

Tennis is one of those sports: whatever you put in, you get out.

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

If you put out 150 percent, then you can always expect 100 percent back. That's what I was always told as a kid, and It's worked for me so far!

A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

Activity produces riches, and riches do not endure when it slackens.

Much effort, much prosperity.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.

Never is work without reward, or reward without work.

Everyone should work; it's good for the soul.

In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your father retire? asked Mr. Morgan, without looking up from his desk. In 1902. When did he die? Oh, at the end of 1904. Huh! snapped Mr. Morgan, If he had kept on working he would have been alive still. Work is God's best medicine. It is God's medicine for man.

In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.