Michael Caine Quotes

What people don't understand is the summertime is motivation - how willing you're willing to work for the upcoming season - and I think, as older players, once you see that drive fall off in the summer, then I think it's time to hang it up.

Whoever I suit up for... I'm going to do my job.

I think it has just been ingrained in me since an early age that the harder you worked, the more successful you were.

As far as I am concerned the best thing that any person can have, and which I think my son has, is commitment to work and also the attitude towards it.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard and and perseverance. No excuses.

[My boys] bloody well will work. Same as myself, same as David. They're not going to be the kinds of kids that just hang about. I want them to be able to fulfill their passions, but I think it's important that the children grow up and have respect for themselves.

My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, 'Happiness is your own responsibility.' That's probably what I quote from her and live by the most.

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.

If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned.

Are you lazy or just incompetent?

If you work hard you'll be happy and if you don't then you'll go to hell!

You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.

Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

The only thing any entrepreneur, salesperson or anyone in any position can control is their effort.

There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.

I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto.

Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work.

One thing we can all control is effort

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

Retirement is not in my vocabulary.

There are a lot of guys out there now who know they are not working as hard as other people. I can't fathom how they think.

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.

Your husband is lazy if when he leaves the house, he finds out which way the wind is blowing and goes that direction.

When you're a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a personal day, but then you show back up or you won't get paid. Everyone develops his/her own strategy for dealing with days that are not productive.