James Russell Lowell Quotes

I was a hard worker.

And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

The true success is to labour.

There is no substitute for work.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

I work hard.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.

Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men -- their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.

People know I work hard.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Without labor nothing prospers.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

I'm one of those guys who's a hard worker.

There is nothing that you can do without working.